Every left-brained dude needs a right-hand man, so here’s a salute to some notable bro-bro teams who rocked science…

Neil Armstrong & David Scott: ‘66 was a good year for the boys of Gemini 8–in March they headed for the moon and performed the first docking of two vehicles in space. Scott was about to be vetted as a moon-walker just like Armstrong, but a stuck thruster intervened and Mission Control ordered the duo’s return. They reentered the earth’s atmosphere and were plunged into the Pacific & the annals of bromance.

James Watt & Matthew Boulton: it should have been all downhill after Watt improved upon the steam engine & isolated cooling steam from the main cylinder, but Watt’s first investor went bankrupt and the future of the 20 horsepower engine was in jeopardy until Boulton–with all his factories and finesse–arrived, and pumping water from a mine was never the same.

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker: a Muppet Labs Venus in Furs…recently confirmed in popularity over Spock (…and Kirk, surely)!

Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne & John Preskill: this last one is a favorite–a tripartite bromance that embraces high-stakes and black holes. It was Thorne and Hawking vs. Preskill, and the center of the debate was whether information could be retrieved from a black hole. Thorne & Hawking said no, Preskill said of course, and when Hawking conceded, he atoned by gifting his contender a copy of Total Baseball: the Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia