Armstrong’s Insurance
When Neil Armstrong & team were getting ready for their moonshot, they found it next to impossible to get life insurance. Either the companies refused outright to issue such a policy or the premiums were ridiculously large. Which made sense: how many people really thought they could make the trip and come back in one (live) piece? In fact, even the US government had a letter ready to be read out just in case the astronauts got stranded on the moon! Check it out: So you can’t really blame the insurance companies this time, can you? Then again, the astronauts still wanted their loved ones to get some money in case they died. But was there a solution? Turns out Armstrong wasn’t just a good astronaut, aerospace engineer and pilot: he was also good about money matters. He figured a way out to make sure his family would be taken care if things went wrong. So what was his solution? They signed hundreds of autographs on envelopes in the quarantine month leading to their take off...