The Far Call: We pray for one last landing...

[athelind]

In the wake of columnist and Nixon speechwriter William Safire's death, here is the speech that he wrote for the President to read in the event that the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the Moon.

It's surreal to read this today; earlier this morning, I found the lyrics to "The Green Hills of Earth" running through my head:

We pray for one

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[r_caton]

I believe that song was used in the BBC programme Journey Into Space - The World in Peril....