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Yeah the last person we sent to the moon was in 1972, so long ago that Eugene Cernan has since died at 82 years old.



Is there an updated version of this xkcd somewhere? https://xkcd.com/893/


No, but there are four left, so we're tracking just above the 5th percentile line.


I think I remember hearing something about the Apollo astronauts having higher-than-average rates of cardiovascular disease as a result of the increased radiation in space.


The sample size is definitely not large enough to make such a broad generalization.


I would imagine that there are more medical details than this to the story.




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