“Yo dawgs, we heard you like the moon, so we put a moon in your picture so you can look at the picture of yourselves in front of the moon while you orbit the moon…”
Apollo 10 tries but fails to make eye contact, 1969.
From left, Eugene Cernan, Tom Stafford, and John Young.
Emily Carney is a writer, space enthusiast, and creator of the This Space Available space blog, published since 2010. In January 2019, Emily’s This Space Available blog was incorporated into the National Space Society’s blog. The content of Emily’s blog can be accessed via the This Space Available blog category.
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