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thousands of people could have been working on bits and pieces, never shown the whole picture.....in that room, you know....with the big picture.

Then only a few at the top call the shots.  Know the real deal...what's going on.  Call in the crew and threaten them with the lives of their families or what have you.....even ww3 if we don't declare we got there before the Russians....sworn to secrecy and took it with them to the grave.  all for the betterment of a nation.  just to come out on top and rub Russias nose in it.  Then later Russia collapses.  Congrats, mission accomplished.  Now we can work on really going to the moon, and building a base there, but first we have to figure out how to safely traverse the van allen belts without cooking astronauts.

I vote some sort of strong electro magnetic field around a ship....sort of like the earth has....maybe use super conducting hyper cooled coils or whatnot.  We can build it in low earth orbit and make it massive like the Yamato Battle ship or something. Just don't have it phase into and out of existance like a Philly experiment.  In low earth orbit you can still look back at earth, protected by earths shielding....even thru a window what with a camera set back and the lights down, and a cutout showing one hemisphere of the earth lit up, and film that and say you are I don't know, half way between the Moon and the Earth....on your way to the moon.  There's tons of tips and tricks used in industrial light and magic......