Here's Buzz Aldrin's expense report for traveling to the Moon

Buzz Aldrin.
(Image credit: NASA/Getty Images)

When it comes to swiping that company credit card, usually you're just getting a free fancy, schmoozy dinner or commercial airline flight at best. But if you're astronaut Buzz Aldrin, your job required you to take quite the extended business trip — and even interplanetary travel must be formally expensed:

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Yes, folks: Even as one of the first two humans to walk on the Moon, Aldrin had to submit to the corporate monstrosity that is bureaucratic paperwork.

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.