Tuesday, 19 May 2026

What's On The Moon?

Humans first landed on the Moon 50 years ago and have already left 500,000 pounds of our stuff on the Lunar surface so what exactly have we left on the Moon?
Over 70 spacecraft vehicles remain on the Moon for the simple reason that they are heavy and not worth the cost to bring back and some of it is waste from the trip that the astronauts dumped when they got to their destination such as food packaging, wet wipes, 100 packets of human urine and excrement.
Astronauts also dumped tools and television equipment to make room for the 850 pounds of Moon rocks and lunar soil they bought back.
Then there’s also six American flags, a photograph of Charles Duke;'s family he left behind, two golf balls, a  plaque that reads: 'Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind'.
The Astronauts also left two medals that had been awarded to the late Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov as well as astrogeologist Gene Shoemaker’s ashes so quite a decent haul of Earth stuff hanging around up there and once we get there properly, that will expand exponentially because us humans are messy buggers. 

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