Roger D. Launius and J. D. Hunley

“ This 22-page reprint of a lecture by the deputy director of the Manned Spacecraft Center assesses the Apollo program from a management perspective at a time when even Gemini was incomplete. He devotes considerable attention to astronaut training and the problems of flight control. Useful for a sense of where the program was almost 5 years after President Kennedy's proclamation of the intent to land an American on the Moon and more than three years before the actual landing. ”

“ High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, New Series in NASA History, 1993. While not devoted exclusively to the Apollo period, this study of NASA's organizational culture over the course of its entire history includes coverage of that culture during the Apollo period. Based on archival sources and extensive interviews, McCurdy covers such topics as the Apollo fire, Apollo 13, the lunar orbit rendezvous, approaches to contracting, the relationships between NASA's centers and the headquarters, and much else. ”

“ A general study, this work investigates the management of sophisticated organizations such as NASA and offers some general insights into the way in which the Shuttle program was handled.
Roberts, Christopher B. "NASA and the Loss of Space Policy Leadership." Technology in Society. 12 (1990) : 139-55. As the title suggests, this article discusses NASA's inability since Apollo to obtain adequate funding for programs it wants to pursue. The author argues that the reason for this failure lie in the "dominance of bureaucratic goals over program goals." ”

“ This interesting article says little directly about Apollo but argues that its success led NASA to develop a long- range plan in 1969 that it continued to follow for the next two decades. "Believing that only manned spaceflight sells before Congress and the public, [NASA, he argues] has never given proper exposure to its unmanned programs. ”

“ It covers especially the Office of Space Science and Applications, the Office of Advanced Research and Technology, and field center organization. Equipped with useful if dated and selected reference notes and bibliography. ”