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    Editorial: America's impossible mission to the moon

    by The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune Jul 03, 2019 3 minutes

    A few weeks before the scheduled launch of Apollo 11, which was intended to land the first humans on the moon, presidential speechwriter William Safire got a call from Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman. He suggested that the White House might want to have a speech ready in case the mission went awry. When Safire tried to grasp the point, Borman added, "Like what to do for the widows." The first men on

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