Above: Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 Insurance Cover, postmarked July
20th 1969 and signed by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz
Aldrin It's incredible to think that astronauts once needed to
improvise in such a way, but these fascinating images show the
lengths to which some crew of the Apollo program had to go in
the name of life insurance. As we all know, the job of an
astronaut is inherently filled with risk, and as such -
particularly in the early days of the Apollo program - an
astronaut's mission into space was literally uninsurable. Of
course this situation didn't sit well with the astronauts, many
of whom had families and other dependants to support should
their space flight unfortunately end in death. Above: Alan
Bean's Apollo 12 Insurance Cover, postmarked Nov. 14th 1969 and
signed by Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean But
without a traditional life insurance policy, how could that be
possible? The answer was provided by NASA in the form of
'Insurance Covers', as seen here, a number of wh