Moon Machines

The Moon Machines video let me see some interesting topics for me, starting with the resilience. I’ve always thought that resilience is the way we achieve success in every project we start, I believe this is truth because it’s almost impossible to complete a project without mistakes, I mean, we are humans and that’s normal. But being able to understand that we are not perfect, and we must start all over again until we finally end up with the correct solution is an important part of being successful.

Another important topic is innovation and collaboration. Since I’ve been studying project management my whole career, I’ve learned that teamwork is very important if we want to achieve success in any project, but also, we need a multidisciplinary team that collaborates with innovative and disruptive ideas. The more diverse the team is, the more innovative ideas we can generate. But further than that, being cooperative with others is important as a personal skill.

The fact that they were programming all the information to bring the Apollo to the moon with so low computing power surprises me. All those ideas the engineer came up with are impressive to me because of the complexity of knowing how to lead the rocket in the right direction taking in count there’s no gravity, coordinates or references.

Finally, I always thought that bringing the man to the moon was a great achievement for humanity because of the complexity and uncertainty, but after watching this video about the effort, ideas, failures and successes now I understand better that it wasn’t only an achievement for humanity but a demonstration of perseverance, union and a shared vision. Humanity proved that we only need one shared vision to collaborate with others despite our differences in favor of development and human growth.