Comet
Harvey Wallbanger
The USSR was attempting to go. They had a lander built and a whole plan for the cosmonauts who were selected to go. The problem was that the rocket they had built to get their spacecraft to Luna (the N1) didn't work. That left the Soviet Union with no way to get to the moon.
and we had failed apollo rockets one after the other and a bad "situation" one time... yet, we magically made it to the moon despite our failed attempts and had no issue getting there and back a few times.... ????