One In Countless Billions
When Neil Armstrong commanded Apollo 11 in 1969, 3.5 billion people were alive. It is estimated that more than 100 billion humans had lived and died prior to 1969. The odds of being born and being the first human to set foot on the surface of a body beyond Earth were about 1 in 105 billion when...
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