Tag: NASA
🌕 Moonshot Clarity – How the Apollo Program Mastered Project Scope
1. The Birth of a Dream – And a Scope Problem In May 1961, President Kennedy announced an almost mythical goal: “Before this decade is out, landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.” Those 20 words launched a project spanning 400,000 people, 20,000 suppliers, and a budget that peaked at…
🚀 Apollo 13 – The Anatomy of Risk and Redemption
1. The Mission That Didn’t Go as Planned By April 1970, NASA had already achieved the impossible — humans had walked on the Moon. Apollo 13 was meant to be just another chapter in a now-routine story of success. But as any project manager knows, complacency is the quietest risk of all. Just two days…
