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22 June 2017updated 01 Jul 2021 11:38am

The moonwalkers: what it’s like to belong to the world’s most exclusive club

"The blue and the white and the brown just hung in the blackness of space."

By Kirstie McCrum

It’s been almost 50 years since man first walked on the moon – and there were only a grand total of six missions.

From 1969 until 1972, as humanity reached out into space, these men – and they were all men – were at the forefront of scientific research and discovery.

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