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Back then men were able to joke and not take themselves too seriously, even when undertaking the serious work of faking a moon landing.

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People don't realize that the whole mission came within about 30 seconds of complete disaster, and that the first moon landing almost became the first military graveyard on the moon, because if the lander had crashed, that was it. No ascent stage. No recovery. Game over. Armstrong was the absolute perfect man in the right place at the right time.

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Exactly. Armstrong described flying that lander as "balancing on a table that only had one leg" https://youtu.be/tUJDbj9Vp5w