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TIL that Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be the first man to walk on the moon instead of Neil Armstrong, but NASA was forced to change their plans because they'd built the Lunar Module so that as the pilot, Aldrin would be seated farther from the door than Armstrong

by /u/BrokenEye3 in /r/todayilearned

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