Comment by dmd
The strong impression I always get from the entire Apollo program is "they didn't know it couldn't be done at the level of technology available, so they did it anyway".
The strong impression I always get from the entire Apollo program is "they didn't know it couldn't be done at the level of technology available, so they did it anyway".
There's a nice lecture from Dan Gelbart that discusses things that people thought were impossible, until they were invented:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZeBWJLRXqM Creative solutions to impossible engineering problems