stackyFACTSIt turns out highly decorated military pilots are completely prone to dramatic, theatrical gestures. Astronaut Alan Bean unpinned his silver astronaut lapel pin and violently threw it into a lunar crater. He did it so he could go home and proudly request a gold pin, leaving his old jewelry sitting alone in the cosmos.
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