>>18811796Yes, adult and nude centrefolds from magazines like Penthouse and Playboy have traveled to the moon and been left on its surface.
โข Apollo 17 (December 1972): Commander Gene Cernan carried a Penthouse centrefold of Helen Caunt (the Pet of the Month) with him to the moon, taping pages into the mission's flight plan as a joke.
โข Apollo 12 (1969): Astronauts famously smuggled Playboy centerfolds and calendars tucked inside their checklists or lockers as pranks.
โข Left Behind: Because lunar modules, equipment, and trash (including personal items and waste bags) were left behind on the lunar surface to save weight for the return trip, copies and pages of these magazines remain on the moon.
Would you like to know more about what items NASA astronauts left behind on the lunar surface, or the history of space mission pranks?
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The Apollo missions included several famous, documented pranks involving adult magazine pages.
The backup crew for Apollo 12 smuggled Playboy centrefolds directly into the wrist-bound checklists of astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean. While walking on the lunar surface in November 1969, the astronauts flipped their cuffs to check their instructions and found images of models like Cynthia Myers and Angela Dorian, complete with playful captions written by the crew like "Seen any interesting hills and valleys?"
Because the lunar modules' ascent stages and surplus weight were abandoned on or crashed into the moon, those checklist pages remain there today.
Would you like to see the exact text of the jokes written on those checklists, or explore other strange objects left on the moon?