| Anyone who knows modern aircraft and peeks in the window at the control panel of the Apollo craft on display at the Smithsonian will immediately grasp how damn lucky they were to make it at all, as Scribbler suggests.
They knew what they were doing, they just had precious few resources to deal with anything going wrong (see Apollo 13).
As for conspiracy theories, why bother? What they accomplished is not at all implausible, and they did it. They also brought back plenty of rocks that would have been impossible to fake. Now that would have been an interesting conspiracy.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |