{"id":12134,"date":"2007-11-07T20:26:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/07\/some-corner-of-another-world-that-is-forever-mankind.html"},"modified":"2007-11-07T20:26:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:26:59","slug":"some_corner_of_another_wo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/some_corner_of_another_wo.html","title":{"rendered":"“Some corner of another world that is forever mankind”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is something inutterably eerie reading this draft speech<\/a> (by William Safire), designed<\/a> to be given by Richard Nixon in case the Apollo 11 moon landing turned into a disaster.<\/p>\n

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Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is something inutterably eerie reading this draft speech (by William Safire), designed to be given by Richard Nixon in case the Apollo 11 moon landing turned into a disaster….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137897,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/preserving-history-on-the-moon.html","url_meta":{"origin":12134,"position":0},"title":"Preserving History on the Moon","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Feb-19 7:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A wide-ranging and fascinating article about efforts to protect original artifacts of lunar exploration ... artifacts on the Moon. 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