The pix from Mars via Curiosity are better than Neil could do with the tech available then.
In one lifetime, we've gone from woven ferrite core memory to DRAMs and SRAMs and cell phones with more computing power than the entire US had in the '60s.
/johnny
Back then, being on the far side of the moon, put them out of radio contact. Today there are enough satellites orbiting the moon to remain in contact 24 hours per day. Mars is the same way.
And yet, here we sit, stranded on the surface of the Earth.