30 September 2019
Returning People to the Moon after Apollo
... as his description of donning the awkward EVA suits: “Aldrin had to talk Armstrong through like a blind man – ... the colour illustrations, he even compares the famous photo of Aldrin on the surface with Holbein’s 16th century portrait of King Henry...
30 September 2019
Moonfire: the epic journey of Apollo 11
... - grouped around the same globe; and, of course, Aldrin standing on the lunar surface with Armstrong and the lunar module...The astronauts walked with the easy saunter of athletes”; Aldrin “talked like a hardworking drill”; Armstrong was “apparently...
30 September 2019
Where Once We Stood - Stories of the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon
... into six chapters (on Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17). The Apollo 11 chapter begins with a brief exchange between Armstrong and Aldrin as the former, on hands and knees, orients himself to exit onto the tiny platform at the top of that...
31 March 2020
Alcohol in Space
... the first” example of “non-terrestrial drinking” occurred during the Apollo 11 mission, when Buzz Aldrin took communion after landing. Aldrin recalls the way the wine “curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... Earth on a hypothetical journey to Mars, from the author’s book The Everyday Space Traveler with a foreword by Buzz Aldrin. We also know that travelling into space is riddled with question marks. Our understanding of how the human...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
When we think of the Space Age, we tend to draw an immediate parallel between space exploration and age of exploration, making a comparison between Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Monarchs, which financed him, to today’s space agencies like ...
