We went!
We the people weren't shown the real operation.
Consider. Back before NASA became NASA, we had a method for going to Mars and Saturn and back in, say, 5 years. But nobody knew about it, and relatively few people know about it today. If Government can cover something like this up from people even knowing about it, think about the fact that they used it way back then, and we still don't know about it.
It was tested, and shown to work.
To the Stars by Atom Bomb:
We the people weren't shown the real operation.
Consider. Back before NASA became NASA, we had a method for going to Mars and Saturn and back in, say, 5 years. But nobody knew about it, and relatively few people know about it today. If Government can cover something like this up from people even knowing about it, think about the fact that they used it way back then, and we still don't know about it.
It was tested, and shown to work.
To the Stars by Atom Bomb:
Imagine it's July 20, 1969 and no one is paying much attention as Neil Armstrong sets foot on the Moon, because all eyes are on the first manned mission to reach Saturn. That may sound absurd, but while NASA was figuring out how to use rockets to reach the Moon, a super secret US government project was developing a gigantic reusable spaceship powered by atom bomb explosions that was designed to carry a crew of 20 to the outer Solar System by 1970 as a first step to the stars. New Atlas looks at the story behind the original Orion Project.