If we could land (part of) it on the moon and then return (part of) that to the earth, then we could have landed a rocket on a ship at sea. But it is very non-trivial with 1969 (or even 2019) tech.
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at three distinct locations: LEM pilot, CSM pilot, Houston, with three sets of computers. Multi hour process was to allow checking, rechecking, slow corrections. And that's w no atmosphere, so you can dawdle in 1/6 g at low altitudes. So, yes, Earth landing (basically >>>
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also a docking in x,y,z space where dx, dy, and dz are all specified, so 6 dimensions) would be hideously computationally expensive if forced to do so in a total window of, say, 5 minutes start to finish. Much more plausible for 1960s/1970s tech is, IMO, winged flyback boosters
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