The actual green light so to speak to land a man on the surface of the moon was proposed in 1967 with the actual test missions for Apollo that would lead up to a lunar landing. This would be when a conspiracy would have started if in fact it did. This is when they would have realized if they could actually do it. In politics, with the realization that they might not win the next election, they like to leave the incumbants with an impossible task. Democrats leave the Republicans with the task of Apollo. Now with their poll numbers dropping, the Republicans leaving the incumbants (Democrats?)with the monumental task of returning to the moon and not only that - landing a man on Mars.