Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success

CHAPTER 11

APOLLO 11: CENTER OF GRAVITY

CHALLENGES

To train a cadre of engineers, flight controllers, technicians, managers, and, most important, astronauts to perform during a great leap into the unknown: the first manned landing on the moon.

Given an almost total lack of practical experience and only two moon-orbital reconnaissance flights, identify the best methods of teaching your ground and flight crews how to cope with an almost limitless ...