Soldato
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Doesn't that alone make you think about Apollo 11 to Apollo 17 and how ludicrously successful it was?
Yes that question was answered by Neil Armstrong in the interview autobiography I was reading, in short, he said, in those days, when there was a clear goal, when they were competing in the cold war, the whole USA got stuck in with the hard work...........he also said in those days, unlike today, when the 'end of the day' bell rang, everyone just carried on working because they were:
1) Dedicated
2) Interested
3) Motivated
He also said it was successful because everyone on every part and every nut and bolt on the entire system made it better than they could have done.........because no one wanted their particular assignment to fail and be the cause of a mission failure, the entire system was designed to be 99.9996% reliable (which is plausible on an 'unlimited' budget), also as said, everyone was ON IT, so to speak.
Apparently in the amount of parts the entire Saturn V stack, an acceptable mission was 1000 component failures, post Apollo it was concluded on average on each mission approx 150 failures occured.
1) Dedicated
2) Interested
3) Motivated
Does a lot.
I think the Apollo was the greatest organisational and managerial feat ever done by humans - it showed.