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Yet another person who can't read what I write... quote: 'Who would dare risk using the LEM on the Moon when it was never, ever tested successfully'.
Of all the other flight examples that you mention, none of these craft were landed on the Moon either. I stand by my first statement that knowone successfully landed the LEM, be it manned or unmanned on the lunar surface before the Apollo 11 mission. Check your facts!
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"Knowone" is denying that nobody landed the LM prior to Apollo 11, but since it was only designed to land on the moon, and not the earth, how would someone test it?
These guys were TEST PILOTS! Do you know what TEST PILOTS do? They TEST unTESTed aircraft, including things like the LM. Unfortunately there was "knowone" to test it before the first landing, which is why it was the first.
The point about the satellite is puzzling. We are saying the CM, especially in 1969, when not alot of hardware was in orbit, would have been easy to spot from observatories all over the world. You post a story were a spy satellite was secretly launched into orbit, and it is quickly picked up by an observatory.
It seems to me that that is exactly what we are saying.