I guess if the Apollo program was a secret, you might have a point.
You wanna whose space program was a secret? The Soviet Union, that’s who. They didn’t tell anybody what they were doing, or when. We had to find out when something blew up from intelligence agencies, sometimes years later.
Compare the American program. Everything was above board, published, televised, and millions of press and spectators from around the world watched the very public launches into space at cape Kennedy.
Was JFK in on it too? Was that a factor in his murder down in Dallas? How about Grissom, White, Chaffee. Did they fake those guys dying on the launch pad, or did they have to die to keep it real?
JFK was not in on it. When he made his announcement almost all scientists and engineers in the field thought he was absolutely insane—but LBJ loved the idea of funneling funds to Texas for the program—whether it worked or not.
LBJ thought it was a joke early on, but was not certain that it was impossible until 1967. From that point on the the military and CIA were authorized to make “other arrangements”.
The best book on the political aspects is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/One-Small-Step-Great-Dominate-ebook/dp/B07NB2QL13
There is a lot of solid information available about who knew what and when they knew it—but of course the standard mass media outlets are not sharing that information—you have to dig a little bit.
One other book that has lots of the “missing pieces” in the political arena is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Man-True-Story-Filmmaker/dp/1513686569
“All truth passes through three phases.
First it is ridiculed.
Second it is violently opposed.
Third it is accepted as being self evident.”
Apollo 1 was intentional sabotage.
The target was Grissom.
The rest I leave for you to learn—see my previous post.