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c t z a l a F e l a e O n r d Z v t r l o c p | I a a i c s l a c D i e e . s o o ' g a P G a . There is no evidence that Frank Sinatra’s request m u r N t l l m t k r l d u M A o o a e S e s M L a i & A e u n D t was ever granted. James Bond went to space, and | t e l | h M e t W w o s a y . e t a l . t T u a l r t g a l t a i a r . a set of the moon, but not to the moon itself. p | a h n a v e l l i . e e l t l . . d e m t l g e k r M u e i O a n r | s Pandora in Avatar is a moon, but not ours. Similarly, r

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B o Stayed Indoors did indeed stay indoors, and not go TV r u to the moon. In Raymond Scott’s Rocket to the History A Video game Moon, the travellers circle, but don’t visit, the moon. Internal arrows indicate when the visit is set (eg: The Cow only jumped over it, and Michael Collins etc 2001: A Space Odyssea is set in 2001, so has orbited, but didn’t touch down. Comic books have been omitted because fitting the entire Marvel an arrow pointing to roughly 2001 on the time- universe would have caused chaos, but special mentions go to Dan Dare, Judge Dredd, Cerebus the line). Note that the timeline is not to scale. Aardvark, Bananaman, Calvin and Hobbes and Moony. Nellie Armstrong was discounted as she was only the first person on the moon in a parallel universe. Unconfirmed sightings Consider any implied moon visits in The Sentinel covered by the ‘et al.’ of the 2001: A Space Odyssey We have heard rumour of lots of visits that we couldn’t confirm beyond doubt. If you can entry. Button moon is a button, not the moon. The Truman Show’s production team operated from a provide solid evidence of any of the following individuals having visited the moon, get in moon, but that was just part of an elaborate set designed to fool Truman – it didn’t fool us. touch at @Ri_Science. The moon in The Mighty Boosh had a face, but we don’t think anyone visited it. We suspect Chitty John Cabal, Torchy the Battery Boy, Sailor Moon, Aquila, Pinky & the Brain, Timmy Turner, Chitty Bang Bang’s visit was a fly-by, rather than a landing, though please get in touch if you can prove Maggot Moon, Tarzan, Curious George, The Fantastic Four, Donald Duck, Super Ted, Char- otherwise. Gru stole the moon, but only Vector actually ended up on it. Selene tended to drive the lie Bear, Blue Cow, Duck Dodgers, The Young Wizards, the Grey Knights, Mickey Mouse, Mr moon, but using it as a vehicle isn’t really the same as visiting. Benn, Alice Kramden, Master of the Moon, Reverend Smallwood, Harold and His Purple Major Tom floated in his tin can far above the moon, but doesn’t touch down that we know of, and Crayon, Avvaiya Patti, Buck Rogers. Pink Floyd didn’t actually go to the dark side of the moon.

Who have we missed? Thankyou Who else has walked on the moon? Show conclusive evidence of any visits we’ve missed or got wrong, and if there are This list was curated by our awesome followers on Twitter and Facebook. enough we’ll include them in an updated version of this graphic in 2016. Let us know on twitter at @Ri_Science. We are humbled by your detailed and obscure pop culture knowledge.

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