I took the picture on the left the last time I went surfing, exactly a week before Cate was born. It’s been really popular on Tumblr (for me) and passed 5,000 notes today.
I did a Google image search on it to see how far it’d gone and found the photo on the right, which is an old Astronomy Picture of the Day. Crazy how similarly placed the moon is in both.
The first page of a prepared statement for President Richard Nixon, in the event that the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the Moon. Via the National Archives; tip of the hat to Letters of Note.
Fascinating.
Was there another one prepared in case Michael Collins also didn’t make it?
“Our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.” !! Now I’m imagining what it would be like if we looked at the moon and knew that there were two dead guys on it.
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