Fly me to the Moon please. Right now.
July 21, 2019 5:07 PM   Subscribe

My mother won a ticket to the Moon. In 1969 Mrs Anna Dabbs won a ticket for a flight to the Moon. She never got to go. Her son, journalist Alastair Dabbs, conducts a hard-hitting investigation in which he names names. Reputations are ruined. History is set straight. (SLRegister)
posted by thatwhichfalls (5 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite
 
This journalist donated his “First Moon Flights” Club card to the collection of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.
posted by Rob Rockets at 6:15 PM on July 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


That was a little defeatist of him.
I prefer Mrs Dabbs' attitude.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:20 PM on July 21, 2019 [3 favorites]


Pssh. I wouldn't be surprised if Don Draper and one of his Mad Men advertising cronies were behind this.
posted by mundo at 7:26 PM on July 21, 2019 [1 favorite]


Ticket to the Moon
posted by Kosmob0t at 2:59 AM on July 22, 2019


Reminds me of The Lazlo Letters. When she couldn't get the tickets, or cash, she should have pushed for them to record and distribute her just-written Pan Am Moon song, or paint her face on the side of the shuttle.
posted by Mchelly at 10:03 AM on July 22, 2019


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