[ WP ] [ IP ] ( Not sure which ) Write a story where Nixon had to read this statement

`` I guess that's it, then.'' 
 
 I looked at the man beside me. A hero in a suit of white, brilliantly crafted to withstand the vacuum of space itself. No. He was a human and he sat beside me, shivering. 
 
 `` We have another twenty minutes in these suits,'' he told me. 
 
 `` It'll be enough,'' I replied. 
 
 I took a last look at the lunar surface before lying down. 
 
 There's really nothing here. 
 
 A desert of dull, featureless, eternal gray. And yet, the object of fascination of every person who has ever lived. 
 
 The light under which every sailor navigated, every predator hunted, the companion of every child who snuck out at night, the dragon who swallowed the sun itself, was now the resting place of those who dared to reach it. 
 
 `` Tragically Icarian,'' I said as I lay on the sand. 
 
 The Earth stood off to the side, helpless. Every civilization that ever existed, every idea that was ever had, every person who ever was... 
 was born on that Earth. 
 
 And now, 
 
 *The first humans on the moon were about to die. * 
 
 

