If the First Moon Landing Would Have Failed

Two days before Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong stepped into the history books, presidential speech writer William Safire sent a memo to Nixon’s Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman. The dispatch contained prepared remarks for the president in case NASA’s mission failed and the astronauts were left stranded to die on the moon…





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Published on September 10, 2012 04:56
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