Not spending any time showing the effort to design the base was a huge missed opportunity. The show basically went from mentioning "the race for the base" in the beginning of one episode to showing a few seconds of it landing at the end of the episode with virtually no in-between.

Some of the best scenes in HBO's From Earth to the Moon were about how the engineers tackled designing the LM and expositing all sorts of things about the technical challenges. I still enjoy the show, but I really wish they catered to the space-nerd audience a little more by spending a little less time on interpersonal drama.