I felt like asking him, "What is more irritating, signing your name for 4 hours, or sitting in a tin can for 8 days with Neil and Mike?"
2nd Man to Walk on the Moon
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Cool.
Wow. Awesome. I am certainly jealous.
Buzz is a great guy and a tireless champion for the further exploration of space! I'm sooooo jealous!
Awesome pic, I wonder what he shaves with?
That's awesome! He seems like a pretty cool guy.
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I forgot to ask, what book did he sign for you Rich?
Awesome! I also recently saw him at a book signing at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. My wife got a nice picture of him. It was pretty cool to get to see one of the select few people to have walked on the moon, and someone that I read about and admired as a child.
I guess this would be the most exclusive club in existence. If there is one more exclusive, I can't think of it, can you?
He has a pretty good right jab, too
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU
In his defense, the nut case had been harassing him for years. Calling a man who was a test pilot and also willingly strapped himself to hundreds of thousands of pound of fuel a coward isn't a smart move
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU
In his defense, the nut case had been harassing him for years. Calling a man who was a test pilot and also willingly strapped himself to hundreds of thousands of pound of fuel a coward isn't a smart move
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Mission to Mars and Reaching for the Moon.
I went in thinking he would only sign one of each of the 3 books available, so I grabbed those two. After getting in line, someone said that at Barnes & Noble, he'd sign as many of any title that you had... so I ran back into the bookstore and bought another copy of Mission to Mars. I intended to send one to my dad, and after realizing that Reaching for the Moon was a children's book, I was very happy to get the 2nd copy of Mission signed.
It's on it's way to Austin right now.
Met Neil Armstrong once, one amazing humble american.
Met buzz aldrin many times, found him an arrogant, egotistical person every time.
Regardless, a total awe moment to meet anyone who are the only known souls to step foot on another world.
Met buzz aldrin many times, found him an arrogant, egotistical person every time.
Regardless, a total awe moment to meet anyone who are the only known souls to step foot on another world.
I met, and got pictured, with Charlie Duke. Great guy and storyteller. An instructor let him fly an approach and landing in or A320 simulator. With only weight, center of gravity, landing speed and wind info he was cut loose. He greased it in like he had 2000 hours in that aircraft.
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Absolutely. 12 men walked on the moon, 18 flew the landing missions, plus the 3 on 13 who didn't land, 3 on Apollo 10 who launched and recovered the LM (says a lot for their discipline that they didn't land it, they were only 10 miles from the surface!), and the 3 on Apollo 8 who flew the first Apollo to orbit the moon.
That's 27 seats, but Cernan, Young, and Lovell all flew twice, so that's 24 men who have flown to the moon.
There are certainly more exclusive clubs, perhaps not as positive... only two men have pushed the switch to fire a nuclear weapon "in anger". More sobering, the 17 who have given their lives in our spacecraft.
Of the 12 who walked on the moon, 4 have passed on... Neil Armstrong, Pete Conrad, James Irwin, and Alan Shepard.
I always felt that Shepard got a bum rap. He was the first American in space, and endured 11g on reentry. "John Glenn" is the answer you'll get from most people when you ask who the first American in space was (sadly, if they even know that).
These guys were all skilled test pilots, and genius-level intelligence. "Top Gun" was about "the best of the best" and the Mercury-7, Gemini, and Apollo crews were certainly "Top Gun"
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I would imagine after flying the LM in 1/6th gravity, the A320 would be a walk in the park.
The LM had 64k of memory and landing radar that usually worked
All those guys had a big pairI would imagine after flying the LM in 1/6th gravity, the A320 would be a walk in the park.
The LM had 64k of memory and landing radar that usually worked
Buzz Aldrin is very, very cool.
I know we were in a bitter cold war at the time, but we should also recognize the brave cosmonauts from those early days, including first man in space Yuri Gagarin, and first woman in orbit* Valentina Tereshkova, who coincidentally did this 50 years ago on June 14, 1963.
*Claims that it was Alice Kramden remain unsubstantiated.
*Claims that it was Alice Kramden remain unsubstantiated.
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