Forty years after Lance Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission, it emerged Nasa had neglected the astronauts on their return.The 2009 report in Time magazine found that although the men were screened extensively for emotional problems before the mission, they were not monitored afterwards. J D Polk, the-then chief of medical operations at Nasa, said that while he was not sure of practices in the 1960s, “we do much more to lend assistance to astronauts now”.

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