Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The 12 Men Who Walked on the Moon

In the wake of the passing of Neil Armstrong, many people have expressed sadness at the fact that the Apollo lunar missions were so long ago, and that soon there will be no one left alive who actually went to the moon. Randall Munroe of xkcd addressed that concept some time ago. It’s time we remembered -or got to know- the only twelve people who ever walked on a body other than planet Earth, in an article I wrote for mental_floss.

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