50 years ago, cosmic rays may have caused Apollo astronauts to see lights
Excerpt from the May 12, 1973 issue of Science News
![Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon in a spacesuit](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/050623_50ya_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, shown here on the moon in 1969, was among the first astronauts to report seeing mysterious flashes of light. Those flashes, attributed to high-energy particles called cosmic rays traveling through the eye, are still a problem for modern astronauts.
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