You may have heard people professing their love with the phrase "I love you to the moon and back." That's all well and good, but one woman put that love into action. Acclaimed geologist Eugene Merle Shoemaker is the only man buried on the moon. His wife, astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker, tells the story of their love for each other and for science in this video from Great Big Story. -via Laughing Squid
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Eugene, please say "Hello" to my crazy aunt. She said that, after she died, she would go to the Moon.