Dick To The MOON!!

The rocket to the moon scene on Mad Men happened right at the same time Don Draper (Dick) breaks off his marriage to Megan.

“Man goes to the moon" is metaphor for leaving Earth to go back into show business, deciding to leave it all behind and leave the woman he was married to.

Right after the rocket scene, Don was suddenly invited back to the company he hadn’t been part of recently.

He went to the "Moon", after Bert suddenly died, which was necessary because it’s probably some given rule that you can only be “back in the show” if someone else there dies.

I believe the moon represents show business, celebrity. Humans can either choose to have a mundane life with someone you marry on Earth or you choose to go to the Moon (be single).

You’re then the star of a TV show, like Mad Men, which is what Don/Dick chose when he called it off with Megan. The fact that it coincided with the moon launch wasn’t coincidental.

Actual quote from back then: "The Saturn V rockets didn't so much "launch". They more just told Earth to "Fuck off!" as they brutalized their way into orbit.”