This book provides an easily readable summary of the work completed in the field of 
organizational communication by Phillip K. Tompkins, professor emeritus at Purdue 
University. After receiving his PhD in organizational communication from Purdue in 
1962, Tompkins was a consultant to NASA working under the legendary Wernher von 
Braun during the development of the Saturn V (the “moon rocket”). Based on that 
experience, he published two books on his time at NASA and his involvement in the 
space program. More recently, he has worked as a volunteer at the St. Francis Center, 
a homeless shelter in Denver, Colorado, resulting in a book about homelessness in the 
United States