Interestingly, Tyler also came pretty close to being deceased while in office, himself. Could have been an early test of what to do when a President dies and you've got no Veep handy to fill the chair...
M-16's are very dust prone. My time in Desert Storm saw me cleaning the damned thing at least twice a day. Don't even want to think about about lunar dust levels. Plus I'd imagine there's gonna need to be a new lubricant tolerant to the lunar temperature ranges as well.
Love this cover art and am disappointed it's never been used on any of the many reprints of the novel. Would seem to be appropriate for a reprint in one of the anniversary years at the very least.
Imagine Henson in direct competition with Pixar. Or becoming involved with {ixar from it's inception.
Mine is the writer H. Beam Piper, who committed suicide at age 60 in 1964. Imagine he may have some great stories or novels ahead of him if he'd given himself the chance.
St. Helena, maybe? Closer than Oz, yet pretty remote and easier to keep something under wraps there, I think. Drawbacks - not really big, and infrastructure would need to pretty-much be built from scratch.
Ok, fair enough. Then you get the spectacle of Ford taking the oath of office for President twice in 17 days, and he gets a head start on his term. Still an interesting hisorical footnote.
21 February 1967 - The launch of the Apollo 1 mission with a crew of three (Grissom, White, Chaffee) aboard for a 15-day mission is Earth orbit, the first manned flight of the Apollo CSM spacecraft.
7 March 1967 - Crew from USS Essex recovering the crew of Apollo 1 from the Pacific Ocean upon...
23 May 1969 - Col. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF becomes the first man to set foot on the moon. He is pictured here descending the ladder of the Apollo 10 LM "Freedom", just moments away from taking his first step onto the lunar soil in the Sea of Tranquility. His crewmate, Jim Lovell would...