Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 12, 1967
Transcript:
Charlie Brown stands outside at night and asks, "Would you like to be the first man on the moon?" Linus replies, "No, I'm not that brave."<BR><BR> Linus says, "I don't think I'd even like to be the second . . . The third man will have quite a bit of responsibility too, and the fourth will have to keep a lot of records . . ."<BR><BR> Linus continues, "The fifth man will have a lot to live up to because of what the others did and the sixth will have to work hard around the moon station . . The seventh will . . ."<BR><BR> Charlie Brown walks inside and says to Lucy, "Your brother is the only person I know who wants to be the forty-third man on the moon!"<BR><BR>
Sadly, it’s now 2020 and there still have only ever been twelve people to ever set foot on the moon.