U.S. astronauts won’t set foot on the Moon until September 2026 at the earliest, following NASA’s announcement of multiple delays to Artemis missions stemming from safety concerns for astronauts flying aboard the Orion spacecraft, and the need for further development of key technologies.
I was just exaggerating the way that the moon landing was presented to us back in 1969. If you weren’t there you probably wouldn’t understand how ‘without a hiccup’ was exactly the way it was presented to us. I’m sure there were hiccups on a grand scale, but they were mostly kept from the public.