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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Backstrap" data-source="post: 1947877" data-attributes="member: 19247"><p>Got me to thinking about when Neil Armstrong died recently - and they showed some old film footage of the address President Nixon had prepared to read to the public if the Apollo 11 mission failed to return the two astronauts to the orbiting capsule after completing their mission on the moon.  NASA had advised the White House of a very real possibility that the lunar module would malfunction upon liftoff from the moon's surface, thereby stranding Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon to face certain death.  Here's the speech that, thankfully, Nixon never had to deliver:  <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193732/President-Nixon-The-moving-speech-delivered-Apollo-11-astronauts-return.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193732/President-Nixon-The-moving-speech-delivered-Apollo-11-astronauts-return.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>