Tag: Project Lessons
The Manhattan Project: When Procurement Built the Atomic Age
1. Introduction — A Project Hidden in Plain Sight In 1942, General Leslie Groves and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer were tasked with building a weapon that didn’t yet exist — using materials no one had ever manufactured, under a timeline no one believed possible.That mission became known as The Manhattan Project. But beyond the science…
🚀 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…
