Which insurance company insured the lives of the Apollo 11 astronauts?

Perhaps the most shameful part of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon was the United States government’s failure to insure the lives of its astronauts. No life insurance company in the world would sign on to what was very likely to be a suicide mission. The Apollo astronauts were literally uninsurable.

With them having families that would need to be taken care of financially in the event of their death, this was unacceptable. They had to find a way to insure themselves. Hoping to provide some kind of legacy to their families, the astronauts signed a series of autographs which could be sold if they indeed perished on their miracle mission. Luckily, this would not prove necessary, and the men returned safe. Some of the emergency autographs have since emerged and have sold at auction for tens of thousands of dollars.