In Event of Moon Disaster (1969)
The possibility of giving that speech scared the hell out of Nixon and helped shape some of his later decisions on follow-up Apollo missions and NASA in general. I&#x27;ve referenced the book on here before, but John Logsdon&#x27;s <i>After Apollo?: Richard Nixon and the American Space Program</i> is a great book on the subject. It makes mention of this letter, and how those fears impacted the White House&#x27;s budget battles with NASA.