Not long to go now for lunar astronauts numbers 28, 29, 30 & 31.
Fun fact: this mission will carry the first inheritable mitochondrial DNA to fly around the Moon.
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@spacemagick I'd say lunar astronauts numbers 25, 26, 27 and 28.
There were, indeed, 27 crew flights to the Moon during Apollo but 3 crew went twice: Jim Lovell (8 and 13 - the only one not to walk on the Moon), John Young (10 and 16) and Gene Cernan (10 and 17).
(And isn't it about time we stopped referring to “manned” missions.)
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Yes, I miscounted! I knew someone would find a hole in my arithmetic. 🙂
Unless we count astronauts like Americans count their presidents. :-)
(The universal sense of 'man' in 'manned space flight' is and always was pretty clear and so, no. Also I find the contrivance 'crewed' rather jarring. Probably just me. LOL)
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