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.
Then in the 19th century muckraker had a comeback. The renewed sense is thought to have been influenced by John Bunyan's late 17th century religious allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress, in which a character with a muckrake (a rake for dung, or muck) is perhaps metaphorically preoccupied with muck.