Every Person Memorialized on the Moon
On August 2, 1971, in the last minutes of Apollo 15’s final moonwalk, David Scott drove the lunar rover a short way from the lander, set down a small aluminum figurine and a plaque... Read More →
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Every Animal That Has Been Sent to Space
On February 20, 1947, a captured German V-2 rose from the New Mexico desert carrying the first travellers ever sent beyond the atmosphere: a small container of fruit flies. They rode to about 109... Read More →
All 12 Men Who Have Walked on the Moon
Everyone who has ever walked on another world did it while Richard Nixon was in the White House. The first bootprints went into the Sea of Tranquility in the summer of 1969; by the... Read More →
