Buzz Aldrin (who went to the Moon with Armstrong), Peter Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepherd, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John W. Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernanâ¦ and Harrison Schmitt - just twelve people have been to the Moon.
Muckrakers were investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business or government, or examined serious societal issues. Several of the most well-known muckrakers worked for McClureâs Magazine, where they wrote exposÃ©s on large companies, meat slaughtering houses, and city governments. These prominent and influential reporters included Ida M. Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and Ray Stannard Baker.
Upton Sinclair, a largely unknown fiction writer, became an accidental muckraker when he wrote a novel about the meat-packing industry. Packingtown. By the early 1900s, four major meat-packing corporations had bought out the many small slaughterhouse companies throughout the United States.