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How industrial capacity constrained Constellation

Workforce and the practical work of establishing production are identified as part of Constellation's industrial difficulties.

Question

How much did the condition of the shipbuilding industrial base affect the Constellation program?

Short answer

Workforce and difficulties getting production organised were part of the problem; no numerical estimate is supplied.

Notes

The industrial constraint identified here is the workforce. Assembling the people and working arrangements needed to establish production is treated as part of the programme's difficulties. No numerical estimate of its contribution is given.