Buzz Aldrin on Magnificent Desolation

Listen to the entire interview here.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/06/23/segments/134919

Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first humans to set foot on the moon. The flight of Apollo 11 made Aldrin one of the most famous men on Earth, yet few people know the rest of his story. In Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon, he gives a harrowing account of the lunar landing, describes his life as one of the superstars of Americas space program, and opens up about his more personal trialswith depression and alcoholism.

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[Bellyflops2]

God bless Buzz

[1019drummer]

very much so....first class all the way. im glad he's still with us

buzz makes most of us thankful and proud to part of the american space experience.

ie....an american!

thank U buzzzzzzz

more funding for nasa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now please...........

[HickoryRose]

Amazing, so Buzz is saying that he was more a Egghead engineer and he got to be on the first moonlanding crew ahead of some Fighter Jocks who thought they should instead have been on that crew. Buzz found that some other astronauts got their noses out of joint and perhaps were no longer civil or ammenable towards him.

See, they are all human.

[rudy4histo]

What a gent!