Well I’ll chime in here. One summer in college I worked with the USGS and the original astronaut teams out of Flagstaff who were developing observation and sampling procedures for the upcoming Apollo flights. Flagstaff was chosen because the area around Flagstaff had just about every type of landscape expected on the moon: Meteor craters, volcanic rock, desert landscapes, canyons and dust covered scenes. It was cut short by word of a heart attack by my father who with the rest of the family was vacationing in Southern California (he survived and lived for years thereafter).
Brought me a smile.