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The Apollo 11 astronauts couldn't obtain life insurance. Here's what they did instead.

Lauren Davis
9/01/12 12:30pm
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When the Apollo 11 astronauts prepared to walk on the moon, they suffered from a very earthly concern: money. Given how dangerous the first manned mission to the moon was, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the three astronauts. So they had to resort to other means to prepare for the possibility of their…

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