It was so easy in the 1960s
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FWIW --- Apollo 11 --- from the lunar deorbit burn to lunar landing --- THE WAS NO COMPUTER USED
IMO a highly skilled test pilot might might been able to pull it off once with a lot of luck.
..but after Armstrong did it, it was like "this is easy, anyone can do it now".
what?
Remember --- no videogame simulators back then.
Armstrong only had about 20 practice runs in the simulator.
He crashed one of the practice runs. Also --- Moon gravity is different. No air is different. Having no ground effect is different.
Having to take it from a deorbit burn is different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJDbj9Vp5w