Original Apollo 11 Speech Found
source: http://gawker.com/5369364/william-safires-finest-speech
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A few weeks before the Apollo 11 launched in 1969, this speech was delivered to President Nixon. The work was written by famed speechwriter William Safire, and was to be read once the shuttle halfway finished their mission. It was expected that the program would come to a screeching, and terrifying halt- as the men of the shuttle became stranded on the moon itself. Of course, the speech was never needed as Armstrong and Aldrin made it back, but the greater margin of possibility was recently realized by the public, in this horrifying speech.
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