This was when NASA’s job was to get things done instead of checking off boxes.
Today NASA is unskilled POCs, DEI hires, BS artists, nontechnical managers, bean counters, wymyns, woke fruits, and tranny nuts.
To get things done, the US hired the best rocket scientists available after WW II, a bunch of Germans with Nazi backgrounds. They designed the Saturn V and its most reliable predecessors for NASA.