The Deepness of Space.

Those of you have followed my obsession with what it'll take to get a permanent mission to Mars might enjoy this speech William Safire wrote for President Nixon to deliver in case the astronauts who made the moon landing weren't able to make it back.  It begins: "Fate has ordained that they men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace."  Chilling, and poetic.