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Steven Shapin: The banality of moon-talk, 1 September 2005
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
by Andrew Smith.
Bloomsbury, 308 pp., £17.99, April 2005,0 7475 6368 3 Show More
by Andrew Smith.
Bloomsbury, 308 pp., £17.99, April 2005,
“... Buzz Aldrin became the first men on the Moon and less than a year before the Apollo 17 astronauts Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan became the last. Between July 1969 and December 1972, 21 astronauts left on Apollo missions to put men on the Moon; 12 actually walked on the lunar surface, of whom nine are still alive. Each mission was made up of three men, one of ... ”