They had the technology and the will to send humans to the Moon, but
they had no TV coverage of Apollo 12's return to Earth and only one guy
who filmed it and then forgot about it until just recently.

You know if this happened today there'd be 20,000 TV angles and it would
be on just as many Web sites in seconds.

Interesting tidbit about the Apollo 12 splashdown: It was the hardest of
all the spacecraft ocean landings ever recorded (15 g) and the impact
jarred a camera loose that hit Al Bean on the head.

Apollo 12 was also the first mission to have problems with lunar dust
floating in the cabin.

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/A/Apollo_12.html