Irascibility makes the world go round

“ Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon to rest in peace. ” - From the speech that William Safire wrote for Richard Nixon in the event that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had been stranded on the moon and been unable to return to Apollo 11. There’s more excerpts and details in this article, which is a remarkable “what if” scenario that thankfully never took place.