“When Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke left for the moon in April 1972, he carried with him a carefully-wrapped portrait of his family.
During the moonwalkers’ busy schedule of setting up scientific instruments and collecting rock samples, Duke somehow found time to lay the portrait on the lunar surface, and take a picture of it. Through bitter cosmic cold, and under the searing radiation of the sun, the photo remains there to this day — a tender statement of family connection on an alien world.”
