<p>A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the moon at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley-Apennine" class="extiw" title="en:Hadley-Apennine">Hadley-Apennine</a> landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, now deceased. Their names are inscribed in alphabetical order on the plaque. The plaque was stuck in the lunar soil by astronauts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Scott" class="extiw" title="en:David R. Scott">David R. Scott</a>, commander, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Irwin" class="extiw" title="en:James B. Irwin">James B. Irwin</a>, lunar module pilot, during their Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA). The tiny, man-like object represents the figure of a fallen astronaut/cosmonaut.
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The names on the plaque are Charles A. Bassett II, Pavel I. Belyayev, Roger B. Chaffee, Georgi Dobrovolsky, Theodore C. Freeman, Yuri A. Gagarin, Edward G. Givens Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Vladimir Komarov, Viktor Patsayev, Elliot M. See Jr., Vladislav Volkov, Edward H. White II, and Clifton C. Williams Jr.
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