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Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesSTS.471J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2007English
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This course is a detailed technical and historical exploration of the Apollo project to “fly humans to the moon and return them safely to earth” as an example of a complex engineering system. Emphasis is on how the systems worked, the technical and social processes that produced them, mission operations, and historical significance. Guest lectures are featured by MIT-affiliated engineers who contributed to and participated in the Apollo missions.

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