Eugene Shoemaker Is Still the Only Man Buried on the Moon

(via Atlas Obscura) Enough human beings have walked on the Moon at this point that it’s almost the “visiting the Empire State Building” of space exploration (that’s 12, if you’re keeping track). But for as many living people who have taken a walk on that far away rock, there is only one dead man who’s ever been put to rest there.  To date, the late scientist Eugene Shoemaker is still the only person whose remains have been sent to the Moon.