Coragious and visionary political leader of the free world sets the goal to high to land a man on the Moon within the 1960s decade...
Did science really make this happen or politicians overestimated?
Aparently in the 60s the automobile was inefficient, simple, heavy, and more like an air pollution device just like the space program that was having some technical difficulties of its own...
Not wanting to take a risk of failure in full public view knowing how difficult it would be to send fragile humans across open unprotected space, land
them on the Moon and bring them home alive, it was better to send a year in advance an unmaned orbiter to collect photos and telemetry info..
The astronauts could launch as normal on the big day and remain in low Earth orbit taking ever smaller photos of Earth from their window publicly making the appearance
of leaving Earth traveling to the Moon...
Artists correctly draws 10,000lb rocket motor thrust effects under lander, it was not included in the pretend Lunar lander...
More than one light source only exist on Earth based outdoor/indoor film set pretending to be Lunar surface...
Wind does not exist on the Moon yet it is flapping the planted flag...
Upon the completion of the mission the three astronauts and NASA chief resign quetly, Nixon was forced out...