Aug 29, 2012
What Nixon would have said if the first manned moon landing had 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…
(via The Atlantic, Bits and Pieces)
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It DID fail, they never went there. Big hoax. A funny thing happened on the way to the moon.
Just shut up. Don’t embarrass yourself.
DON’T FEED THE TROLLS.
If they never went their then how come we have a space station on the moon and a US flag there that is visible with a high powered telescope?
Like wise if we never went to the moon then how come we’ve recently landed on Mars? Wouldn’t the moon be the first stop since it is MUCH closer then Mars?
This is one of many ignorant responses that I’ve seen.
Jessica – Have you not heard of Holographic Interstellar Laser Image Projection (HILIP)? They project those images from satellite to fool people. Like you.
Yeah… “Holographic Interstellar Laser Image Projection” is soooo widely known about that a Google search for it (with quotes) yields a grand total of zero results. Searching for HILIP gets you just as far.
Trolls, they be trollin’.
Don’t feed the trolls!
Hollywood did a great job with the moon landing. My Uncle Jimmy truly thought it actually happened!!!!!
I wonder if the same idiots that think our going to the moon was a hoax, are the same people that belong to the Flat Earth Society.
Yes, those are the same trolls.
Touching. fortunately useless but touching
Wow, that’s weird to read. Also, I can’t tell if some of the above comments about the moon landings being a hoax are trolling or if they actually believe that (sad either way).
Fortunately the people who believe the moon landings were a hoax don’t actually exist. They are a construct designed to create a false extreme to prompt a denial of conspiracy theories – thus denying the existence of the actual conspiracy which does of course exist. er…
Brilliant.
Epic! :))))
B.O.S.S. Like a Boss, Sir. I bow to you.
Hmmm… I might have some use for this as alternate history.
That’s sobering: “widows-to-be”
Eep . . . “end communications with the men”? I hope that was a metaphor for when they die, and not just a “well, the president’s said his peice now, enjoy your last few hours in the void, boys . . .”
I don’t know if it was ever formally discussed at NASA, but rather than wait to die as the oxygen/food/water ran out I think the astronauts would have communicated one last time with their families, let the chaplain say his prayer … and then opened the hatch. Make it quick and get it over with…
That freaked me out, too. Was the plan to let them die alone in space? I’d volunteer to talk to them until they breathed their last. No one should die alone. Although the “open the hatch” theory makes sense, too.
I’m very grateful that President Nixon didn’t have to give this speech.