Lost In Space Speech
Nearly everyone knows Neil Armstrong's famous “Small step for man, giant leap for man kind” speech that he delivered from the moon in 1969.
What not everyone knows is that there was another speech!
Though the July 1969 mission proved a success, President Richard Nixon's aides devised a contingency plan in case astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (and their lunar module) were somehow stranded on the moon.
In a memo, drafted two days before the Eagle landed, aide William Safire provided Nixon with a short speech to be delivered "In Event of Moon Disaster."
After making condolence calls to the "widows-to-be," Nixon would have said, "Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace."
It's pretty understandable that they thought about this in advance, especially after the fire disaster in which 3 astronauts died while testing an Apollo rocket.
[Via: Savior Machine, The Smoking Gun]
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