How NASA kept astronauts from swearing on the Moon
In the 1960s, NASA’s astronauts were the cool, calm, and collected faces of the space program who represented American values – most were married and had some sort of religious affiliation. NASA’s public affair office took great pains to keep its astronauts’ images clean, but they were still men who occasionally cursed when faced with…
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