Slitherine

Made it to the Moon within one quarter of the actual historical landing.

It was in sandbox/GSA, but I did it.

I used Russian boosters except for Saturn V, the Gemini Direct Landing, and went from PSK to Gemini to Direct Landing. I skipped the missions with the Agena test docking vehicle, and boosted the Saturn V reliability by launching three missions in one season - Pegasus, Pegasus Extended and the Soviet lunar lander and soil sample return missions. I then sent the direct lander Gemini into first unmanned orbital test, and then one season with both unmanned lunar flyby and unmanned lunar orbit tests to get its reliability up.

I probably could have done it in Q2 if I'd done the unmanned orbital test and the unmanned flyby in the same season, and the unmanned lunar orbit test and the manned flyby in the next.

So it IS doable.

Congrats! Do you have a savefile from your accomplishment?

Cheers,

I believe this is it.

Thanks! It will come handy in order to test some changes to the game.

Cheers,

Made it to the Moon within one quarter of the actual historical landing.

Congrats ! In fact you did it !

Apollo XI landed the 20/21th of July, which is in 1969 Q3 :

Q1 : Jan, Feb, Mar
Q2 : Apr, May, Jun
Q3 : Jul, Aug, Sep,
Q4 : Oct, Nov, Dec

1967 Q4, US, no sandbox, normal difficulty. I think Q3 would have been achievable as well, but the first unmanned LEM test failed.

I'd post a pic, but the forum doesnt allow me ("Your post looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URLs.") Have the savegame and the screenshot if anyone is interested.
Beat THAT. I still don't believe I pulled this off.

I admit though, for the landing, I relied heavily on the Tiger teams, needed them twice.