Having the opportunity to meet amazing people like Buzz Aldrin and Sally Ride was incredible.
Mr Aldrin has truly seen the world from a different perspective, from the Moon.
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Dr Aldrin, whose book is reviewed here, would prefer NASA to aim for Mars directly.
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"The most critical door opening for exploration in all of humanity, " is how Aldrin sees the mission's legacy.
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"It's all fallen apart, " Aldrin says, talking about what may prove a half-century gap between American lunar landings.
But I was more excited to see that Buzz Aldrin was walking around the lobby of my hotel.
This SEC document from 2002 identifies Buzz Aldrin as an investor too.
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Three days later (42 years ago yesterday), at 12:27 Eastern Daylight Time, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins went into lunar orbit.
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Buzz Aldrin, the pilot on the Apollo 11 moon landing, paid him this tribute in a BBC interview in 2009.
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He documents their military test-pilot backgrounds, their all-American wholesomeness, their intelligence (Mr Aldrin had a doctorate from MIT) and their self-serving egos.
Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours and 36 minutes on the moon and performed the first moonwalk during their historic mission.
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He never discussed it with his colleagues Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, although they tried to get it out of him.
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Mr Aldrin describes the rockiness of his own post-moon life: alcoholism, depression, two failed marriages and a sad end to his air-force career.
We learn that many senior NASA managers supported Mr Armstrong over Mr Aldrin, although initial plans had called for Mr Aldrin to be first.
But Mr Aldrin disagreed with the view that astronauts should test capabilities for a long-duration flight on the Moon before attempting a journey to Mars.
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"Hundreds of local letters have been sent backing Aldrin, " he said.
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The firm made the Eagle module that carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface for the first manned moon landing in 1969.
Few of these facts were widely known by the public when Armstrong, along with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, was picked for the lunar landing mission.
The most fashion forward of the geniuses were Dr. Bargmann, diaphanously dressed in Armani, and Dr. Aldrin, who wore a maroon tuxedo with a sterling-silver bow tie.
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"Not very successfully, " the 79-year old Aldrin quickly acknowledges.
Armstrong and Aldrin were operating in a new and alien environment, in untested equipment (because lunar conditions could not be replicated on earth), with few fallback options if something went badly wrong.
He goes into the politics and jockeying, from Mr Aldrin's vociferous campaign to be first, to Mr Armstrong's pulling rank (as commander of the module, he was higher in the NASA hierarchy).
Some people including Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step out of the Apollo 11 lunar module have taken the opportunity to wonder whether returning to the moon is such a good idea anyway.
The images posted Thursday on the NASA Web site include a two-minute video montage with highlights of the moonwalk, and separate videos of Armstrong and Aldrin descending a ladder to the moon's dusty surface.
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