If you noticed the moon last night, you would be impressed to know that that piece of the universe had been visited by only 12 people in history. That’s it. 12. The most exclusive club of all time. And what’s more — each one of these dozen lunar apostles were white. As if asserting the whiteness of the moon. There are many wonderful stories from each trip but my favorite has to be the one from Apollo 16. During that mission, astronaut Ken Mattingly lost his wedding ring. According to his fellow astronaut Charles Duke Jr., it apparently floated off somewhere and Ken spent all his spare time on the 11-day trip trying to find it. Long story short, a wedding ring, the symbol of marital completion, is still aimlessly floating in the space.

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