Fly me to the Moon please. Right now.

July 21, 2019 5:07 PM

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)

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