institutional document
Managing NASA in the Apollo Era
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Managing NASA in the Apollo Era. NASA SP-4102. Washington, DC: NASA, 1982.
Why this matters here
NASA History Division’s Managing NASA in the Apollo Era states that Apollo employed roughly 400,000 Americans at its peak and relied on more than 20,000 companies and universities—an industrial and institutional scale far larger than any single spacesuit suggests. The World We Make Together cites those figures against the solitary look of the lunar photograph. The source establishes workforce scale; the book asks how images compress collective achievement into a figure that appears alone.
