>We spent more money and did not keep it simple. Who got to the Moon and back? It was a matter of money, priorities, pride and technology - not necessarily in that order! :) By the way I worked on the Apollo and LEM projects.

Tom, this officially makes you cool! What kind of work did you do on the LEM project? I saw a documentary recently about Mercury, Genesis, and Apollo programs, and one part was about the guy who came up with the LEM idea. At first, his idea was totally rejected.