History is obsessed with what happened. But there’s a quieter, stranger story running just beneath the surface: the story of what almost happened on a different date entirely. The moon landing nearly wasn’t July 20, 1969. NASA’s original schedules had Apollo 11 landing closer to July 22nd. Two days. Imagine a world where “one small step for man” was delivered mid-week instead of on a Sunday afternoon, when hundreds of millions of people happened to be at home, near their televisions.