Essay; Disaster Never Came

[kodemunkey]

''Fate has ordained,'' a saddened President was prepared to say, ''that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay to rest in peace.''

That was the opening line of a speech to the nation that I drafted for Richard Nixon 30 years ago this week, as Apollo XI was about to land on the moon.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/12/opinion/essay-disaster-never-came.html

[davomills]

Better be prepared though I wonder if there will ever be a mission to the moon again in my lifetime, other than one to mars which seems decades away too.

[jules]

Welcome to Moon Zoo davomills! I would love there to be more manned missions but I think robotic missions are much more likely now. They are much more cost effective. I was lucky enough to grow up with the Apollo programme when manned missions seemed commonplace. I wonder when the next generation of kids will be able to say that.

[SandraSheilds]

I am new to this forum but found it so interesting that I feel tempted to visit it again. The people who has got enough ambitions to go to the moon must be very adventurous in their life.

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