Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Pluto…and beyond! NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld, left, New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, CO, second from left, New Horizons Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), second from right, and New Horizons Project Manager Glen Fountain of APL.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

The New Horizons mission to Pluto was a triumph of science…and a feat of project management.

Daniel Terdiman, a San Francisco-based journalist at Fast Company, has written a fascinating article titled:

“How to Plan the Ultimate Long-Term Project, From the Team Who Got Us to Pluto.”

Terdiman explains that planning a project whose culmination is nine years and more than 3 billion miles away “requires rigorous risk assessment, strong leadership, and endless patience.”

How the team ultimately succeeded is detailed in his story at:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3048515/how-to-plan-the-ultimate-long-term-project-from-the-team-who-got-us-to-pluto