"Luckily Houbolt got to make his case, and when Wernher Von Braun changed his mind and endorsed this truly insane idea, the rest of NASA followed. We landed on

"Luckily Houbolt got to make his case, and when Wernher Von Braun changed his mind and endorsed this truly insane idea, the rest of NASA followed. We landed on the moon on July 20th 1969." 'Chapeau' (hats off). Been paying attention to space and SF for way too many moons, had never read this story.