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Introduction to Project Management_Module 4 Case

Introduction to Project Management_Module 4 Case

Q 1. Briefly recap the reasons why the last missions were cancelled, including the factors that argued against that decision 2. How did NASA share the scientific knowledge gained from the Apollo program? 3. How did the technical lessons learned during Apollo influence the American space program in the years that followed?4. What, in your (informed) opinion, are the most important lessons that any would-be project manager can take away from a study of the Apollo program?

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Plan of NASA was to carry on the lunar manned missions through Apollo 20. However, there was turning out of the history in a different manner. The last 3 missions i.e. Apollo 18. Apollo 19 and Apollo 20 were canceled. They were in stages of planning. Hardware which never reached the moon turned out to be exhibited in the museum. Multiple reasons were there for the cancelation of the 3 expeditions. This included budgets that were tighter which the administration of Nixon and the Congress imposed. This was the chief factor. Spending of NASA touched peak in the middle of the 1960s. Labor force consisting of contractors and staffers at that time totaled to about 400,000.