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The project was optimized for shortest critical path to land a man on the moon and bring them back in the shortest amount of time. It was not optimized for low
by datadrivenangel 3y ago
The project was optimized for shortest critical path to land a man on the moon and bring them back in the shortest amount of time.
It was not optimized for lowest cost.
- cubefox 3y agoWell, I was writing this because the PDF doesn't seem to mention "large budget" as a reason for the success, perhaps because it would be too obvious. But the Apollo program might still not have been particularly optimized for speed, even though that was the goal. For example, they possibly could have taken a more iterative approach in the Saturn V development, which could have resulted in an even earlier moon landing. It is hard to tell, because for such a large projects there is no good comparison class.