Monday, July 26, 2010

Full Moon Tonight -- and a bit of almost forgotten history



Americans remember Neil Armstrong as the first human to walk on the moon; we remember the second guy. Buzz Aldrin, but mostly because he embarrassed himself on a nationwide TV reality show, Dancing With The Stars. The third member of the Apollo 11 crew, command module pilot Michael Collins, is a Trivial Pursuit answer.

�A total �of 12 people have walked on the moon. They are all listed at the end of this article. Of the original, Right Stuff Mercury astronauts, only Alan Shepard (pictured above)made it to the moon.�Click on the headline to see some of what happened after Apollo 11.

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