How did the astronauts practice for an LM flight through space?

Question

As all new pilots must do is practice flight, real flight. Well, whether or not Armstrong and his crew were pilots before would not matter seeing that their next flight would be in unfamiliar terrain and a VERY different terrain. Question is where on earth could ANYONE practice for a flight in space. Where on earth could you find a place where there are no gravity, air, resistance, and other outer space properties? Then find a place where there is only 1/6 of earth's gravity to practice landing. This is a must before the real task is at hand. Of course the logical answer to these is NOWHERE on earth. So it's mind boggling to think that these men who have never flew in space before and obviously never practised (i.e actual practice flight) could, with such accuracy and precision, fly through a VERY unfamiliar terrain AND land when they admitted that the landing was the challenge of it all. Not just one expedition but each manned expedition to the moon did they succeed. Get Real.

Answer 1

You have a very good point there. That must be why nobody has yet sailed on a boat -- the water is a VERY different terrain from dry land. Practicing on dry land is no good for sailing on water. Where on land could you find a place with the depth of liquid, waves, etc. and other water properties.

Answer 2

They used things called simulators just like they used to simulate flying the command module. They did a few thouusand landing simulations and probably crashed a thousand or so. By the way that's how airline pilots learn to fly their planes without leaving the ground.