For more on the Apollo 13 crisis response, check out 'Apollo: Race to the Moon' by Murray and Cox. I haven't met a more detailed popular examination of the engi

For more on the Apollo 13 crisis response, check out 'Apollo: Race to the Moon' by Murray and Cox. I haven't met a more detailed popular examination of the engineering and management effort behind the Apollo program, and they spend some time on the 'back room' of engineers depicted in the film. I'm reminded of 'The Medical Detectives', Roueche, but only by reputation (I own a copy I haven't read.) "In each true story, local health authorities and epidemiologists race against time to find the clue to an unknown and possibly fatal disease." If you interpret 'The enemy might get the bomb before we do' as a crisis, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', Rhodes, is a detailed (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) examination of how we got from discovering the atom's nucleus to the consequences of deploying city-destroying weapons in a generation or so. You might find general systems theory interesting, maybe 'Thinking In Systems', Meadows, and/or 'An Introduction to General Systems Thinking', Weinberg.