No Spare Parts Store on the Moon

Apollo Lunar Missions

Disruption exposure HighHistoricalSpace20 MIN READ

Apollo represents perhaps the ultimate no-resupply supply chain. Every kilogram of consumables, equipment, redundancy and contingency capability had to be selected before launch, forcing extraordinary decisions about reliability, inventory and risk.

—Continue reading

The rest of this chapter is part of the online resource.

Four sections remain, along with the chapter data set and the route model. Access also opens all 14 interactive tools.

Get access — $29 I already have an account

—Next

Continue with a related operation.

Case study/22 min read

International Space Station

Supply Beyond Earth — How do you operate a laboratory and permanently inhabited outpost when almost everything it needs must first be launched from Earth?

ModernSpace

Case study/19 min read

South Pole / McMurdo

The Last Delivery — Antarctica operates around a supply chain with an expiry date.

ModernPolar

Case study/21 min read

Berlin Airlift

A City Supplied by Air — When the Soviet blockade cut normal surface access to West Berlin, an airlift had to become the supply chain for an entire city.

HistoricalMilitary