There is some corner of another world that is forever mankind

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Letter written by White House officials in 1969 to be released in the event of the failure of the Apollo 11 mission. 

 

 

Hat tip to Caitlin Doughty

 


 

 

 

 

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Jenny Uzzell
11 years ago

Is there only me who finds this deeply disturbing? Understandable, certainly, but non-the-less, deeply disturbing!

Phoebe Hoare
Phoebe Hoare
11 years ago

Yes, I was waiting for someone else to say it first in case I was being completely unreasonable and insensitive! Very strange!

Vale
Vale
11 years ago

Altogether fascinating.

You can hear tricky Dicky all the way through it.

Isn’t the phrase widows-to-be chilling?

Jenny Uzzell
11 years ago

Yep, that was the phrase that did it for me, too!

Evelyn
11 years ago

I didn’t find it too disturbing, (can’t say the same for how to kill yourself with helium) all govt departments, big companies, sporting fixtures have these sort of press releases ready for every eventuality… Disaster PR, bit like the BBC or the national papers having the royal obits ready written…. That’s the modern world for ya!
(Don’t suppose they had one ready for the Titanic)
Ps I must admit I thought hard about widows to be 🙁

Jonathan
Jonathan
11 years ago

Oh come on, now, wouldn’t you just love to have been a Moon Widow? Fame, fortune and adulation scattered in your path like stars from a flag, you get to talk to the President and be told the news before the rest of the watching nation – you even get a space funeral thrown in, with the world’s most expensive casket and a PROPER sky burial, now there’s a first!

What greater sacrifice could a good American gal desire for her Mother Nation?