World Leaders Names Written on the Moon
Chapter 1

Etched in the dust: personal family traces

Chapter 2

The Silicon Disc of Goodwill

Chapter 3

Memorials for the fallen

Chapter 4

Mapping the Moon's geography

Ch 2 · The Silicon Disc of Goodwill
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007skaty The unsung space planners and politicians named on the Apollo 11 disc

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007skaty The Apollo Eleven Goodwill Disc

The unsung names are etched in silicon, resting forever in the lunar dust!

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The truest record of our progress is not who arrived, but who we brought with us.

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007skaty Pope Paul VI wrote a decorative Vatican message for space exploration.

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Inside Buzz Aldrin's suit pocket

007skaty Neil Armstrong prompted Aldrin to drop the coin-sized package from his spacesuit shoulder pocket onto the Sea of Tranquility

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Shrinking world leaders

007skaty A tiny silicon wafer preserves microscopic texts from global heads of state.

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Pope Paul VI's Vatican message
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007skaty Decode the Vatican's message to discover what Pope Paul VI left on the moon.

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Fun Fact

Silicon disc: The Apollo 11 goodwill disc is so tiny that its 73 messages can only be read using a powerful microscope.

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Glossary
silicon (noun)
A nonmetallic chemical element used widely in the manufacture of semiconductor devices and electronic circuits. In July 1969, astronaut Buzz Aldrin left a tiny etched wafer of this element on the moon.

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Gossip

Which message medium is the coolest?

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Quiz

In whose spacesuit pocket was the Apollo 11 silicon goodwill disc carried to the Moon?

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007skaty Engineers shrank text from dozens of countries onto a silicon wafer.

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How did the Apollo 11 crew almost leave the Moon without placing the silicon goodwill disc?

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007skaty The silicon goodwill disc carried inside Buzz Aldrin's spacesuit pocket.

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How many world leaders contributed messages of peace to the Apollo 11 silicon disc?

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What technology was used to shrink the 73 goodwill messages onto the Apollo 11 silicon disc?

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Which religious leader signed a highly decorative message on the Apollo 11 goodwill disc featuring Psalm 8?

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What ancient biblical text did Pope Paul VI include in his message on the Apollo 11 silicon disc?

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Which former NASA administrator, who led the agency during most of the 1960s, had his name etched on the Apollo 11 goodwill disc?

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Whose names, besides world leaders, were etched onto the Apollo 11 goodwill disc to honor legislative support?

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