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.
a group of American writers, journalists, publicists, and sociologists who were sharply critical of American society. The muckrakers were especially active between 1902 and 1917. Coined in 1906 by US President T. Roosevelt, the term âmuckrakersâ was inspired by J. Bunyanâs Pilgrimâs Progress, which describes a character who digs about in the mud but fails to notice the bright skies overhead.