00:00What would have happened if Apollo 11 had failed?
00:02If Apollo 11 had failed, the astronauts left on the moon would have had no hope of rescue.
00:07So after a certain amount of time, when the oxygen in the module ran out,
00:10NASA planned to forcibly end communications so they could pass away in peace.
00:13Michael Collins, who was on the command module, was scheduled to return to Earth alone.
00:17After that, the US government prepared a separate farewell speech in case of a lunar disaster.
00:23After communication was lost, the president was supposed to call the astronauts' wives
00:26and a clergyman would recite a prayer honoring their souls,
00:29similar to a burial at sea.
00:30Also, the United States might even scale back its space program.
00:33The justification for the space race during the Cold War would have been undermined,
00:37and political and public support for the costly manned lunar exploration program would have plummeted,
00:41making it highly likely that the Apollo program would have been drastically reduced.
00:44And there is also analysis suggesting that Apollo 12 might have been converted
00:48from a scientific exploration mission to a memorial and recovery mission,
00:51collecting the remains or belongings of the astronauts left on the moon.
