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TIL once Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked how it’s like to stand on the moon, he said “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, Look at that, you son of a bitch.”

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