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TIL Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's final task on the moon was to leave a small package of memorial items to Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov, and Apollo 1 astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee.

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