But wait. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the Moon when it could barely blueprint a decent satellite
No, but we could launch missiles from Kansas that could hit Moscow when JFK made that pledge, and the Soviets could do the same in our direction. In that moment he made that speech there was a mountain of new technologies already on the drawing boards of Grumman, Lockheed, McDonald Douglas, Raytheon, and in the labs of MIT, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia that would make 1969 almost unrecognizable to the people of 1961-1963. And not just in the United States, worldwide technology and science would bound forward in the 1960s in ways the human race had never seen before.
To ignore this is stupid.
But the Moon is also round and moving, albeit at about 3 km per hour, compared to Earth's 3,600 k per hour (IIRC), so Houston we have a problem!
No problem for those who paid attention in junior high school. See, it's called "A Straight Line". The guys on the moon point their antenna back to earth, and send their signals. That's it, that's all she wrote. Thanks for playing.
Think about the exercise when you positioned yourself next to a moving car. Now imagine it is going at 50mph and you are moving slower. What anomalies would you expect to see in your video, without your repositioning yourself?
This has nothing to do with sending radio signals between the earth and the moon. Nothing. This is a worthless example demonstrating your inability to grasp the subject matter on any level.
Think of the car as travelling on a large beach ball four times the size of the beach ball you are on alongside of it*; with its beach ball turning almost 3,600/3 times faster than yours, meaning synchronicity is slightly off, even though with your slow spin, the difference is about 3 or 4 km behind the car every X seconds and always needing to catch up. The resulting images should theoretically reflect this anomaly - the images showing a constant catching up - just as it appears to reflect the sound delay.
No, how about you think of the beachball as having a circumference of 24,901 miles. That way you'll understand how dumb this example really is. In Vixen World people should get speeding tickets because their parked cars are traveling at 1,040mph. Relativity is a thing. If I'm on a 747 and I drop my pen to the floor the result is the same as if I drop that same pen in my house, even though - technically - that pen is moving at over 500mph. And we're talking radio waves, not filming something between moving objects.
Compare and contrast how quickly the Moon's shadow passes across the Sun in a solar eclipse as viewed from a set spot on Earth for an idea of how quickly you could lose the picture if the camera is not in a selenostationary position.
The moon is small and close to the earth, the sun is large, but far away from the earth. This is another stupid example. Please stop until you graduate high school. What does the moon do otherwise? Today we get about 12 hours of the moon, rising at 7:59pm and setting at 7:04am. Why do you think that is?
Oh, and the whole time the moon is overhead the Sea of Tranquility is mostly fixed in one position, so if there was someone with a high gin antenna up there he could talk to Houston, and send video images with no problem, and zero use of a satellite.