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What if the moon landings had failed? The moving speech that President Nixon would have delivered
Daily Mail ^ | 25 August 2012 | JAMES NYE

Posted on 08/27/2012 3:54:38 PM PDT by moonshot925

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"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.

They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind."

1 posted on 08/27/2012 3:54:46 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925
President Nixon Meets the Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Lawn of the White House, 5 November 1969

2 posted on 08/27/2012 4:03:12 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925

Thanks for this. Awesome.


3 posted on 08/27/2012 4:05:24 PM PDT by 2big2fail
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To: moonshot925

Its pretty amazing that he didn’t end of giving the speech considered all the potential disasters they encountered.


4 posted on 08/27/2012 4:07:00 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: moonshot925

Domo for the photo !


5 posted on 08/27/2012 4:08:15 PM PDT by sushiman
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I wonder if NASA had already figured out the trajectory for Collins to return without the added weight of Armstrong and Aldrin and rocks?


6 posted on 08/27/2012 4:11:18 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: moonshot925

Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin - L-R??

Am I right??


7 posted on 08/27/2012 4:17:02 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: moonshot925
There was real concern that the ascent module might malfunction and fail to launch Armstrong and Aldrin back into moon orbit where they would hook up with the command module (Columbia).

I can only imagine the relief that Armstrong and Aldrin felt when the ascent engine kicked in and launched them skyward. The fact that they might be stranded on the lunar surface to die must have been in the back of their minds. I wonder what would have happened had they been stranded. Would they simply wait to run out of oxygen or would they get it over with quickly by way of cyanide capsule or maybe ripping off their pressure suits and exposing themselves to an instant death. Either way beats running out of oxgen and dying a slow, painful death by way of asphyxiation. I think there was a science fiction story I read a long time ago that dealt with this.

Anyway, glad Nixon never had to give that speech.

8 posted on 08/27/2012 4:17:02 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: moonshot925

Rush talked about this today. I think he was right that there was a one chance shot of firing the rockets to lift off the moon and recouple with the command module. I’d forgotten about that with the lunar landers.


9 posted on 08/27/2012 4:22:15 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (RINO season is open. No limit. Make them extinct.)
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To: moonshot925
Obama's version of the speech:
"Circumstances that were beyond my control, that I was in no way able to prevent, ordained that the men I sent to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

I have told these brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, that although I know that there is no hope for their recovery I also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice that they have made for my space program.

I understand with great appreciation that these two men are laying down their lives in pursuit of my most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding and the fostering of Islamic appreciation of the Muslim role over the centuries in the development of science.

I realize that these men will be mourned by their families and friends; I know they will be mourned by their nation; I know they will be mourned by the people of the world; I sense they will even be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown. Most of all, they will be mourned by me, their Commander in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama.

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one as I stirred the voters to come together as one in our historic election; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man as it works together to establish my dream of fundamental transformation and change.

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, I do much the same, but my heroes are epic men of flesh and blood and this is why, as military men, they are known as corpsemen.

Others will follow, and surely find their way back to my home, the Earth. My search will not be denied. But these men were the first to follow my dream, and they will remain the foremost in my heart.

For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know, as I do, that there is some corner of another world that is forever a beacon of my hopes and desires for a new world."

10 posted on 08/27/2012 4:23:59 PM PDT by aruanan
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That is a good question.

Here is what Collins wrote in his book Carrying the Fire

"My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he wrote. "If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it."

11 posted on 08/27/2012 4:24:04 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: KosmicKitty
L-2-R....
Aldrin... Collins... Armstrong.. POTUS

(helpful) FYI only... 8^)

12 posted on 08/27/2012 4:26:16 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: moonshot925

Which reminds me, has Obama taken credit for the moonshot yet?


13 posted on 08/27/2012 4:28:20 PM PDT by MeganC (The Cinemark theatre in Aurora, CO is a 'Gun Free Zone'. Spread the word.)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

Oops

Thanks, I was guessing using a 2009 picture as a guide.


14 posted on 08/27/2012 4:33:42 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: aruanan
Obama's version of the speech:

Even though he hasn't been heard of or elected yet, it was Bush's fault.

15 posted on 08/27/2012 4:36:14 PM PDT by LaybackLenny (Principles aren't worth a bucket of warm spit. I'm voting Romney. God help me.)
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To: SamAdams76

I sat in a Mercury capsule at KSC and felt a wave of panic coming on. I cannot imagine the courage all those 60’s astronauts had to go up where nobody can help them in a primitive ballistic spacecraft.


16 posted on 08/27/2012 4:37:21 PM PDT by omega4179 ( el 0bama comio un perro)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Did you know the Stanley Kubrick’s widow says that he directed the fake moon landing footage for NASA??

Some guy claims he left clues in The Shining.

http://news.discovery.com/space/faked-moon-landings-and-kubricks-the-shining.html

I don’t know what to make of all that but I do know the interview by the 3 astronauts is weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_ZehPOMwI

Notice they don’t say anything about the possible “UFO”. Aldrin didnt talk about that until his old age.

Who knows what Armstrong meant with this weird comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUx1SURbb3g


17 posted on 08/27/2012 4:37:52 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: KosmicKitty

Aldrin, Collins, Armstrong, (L-R)


18 posted on 08/27/2012 4:41:16 PM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.patriotcalendars.com/)
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To: moonshot925

I heard Rush talking about this today. I never heard what the actual plan was if the LEM rocket didn’t fire. Suicide pills?

Either way, my respect for the bravery of these men was raised yet again.


19 posted on 08/27/2012 4:42:25 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (obozo could bring back literal slavery with chains and still he will get 97+% of the black vote)
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To: RummyChick; Arrowhead1952

Are you trying to suggest that the moon landing did not take place?


20 posted on 08/27/2012 4:42:51 PM PDT by moonshot925
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