Professor Brian Cox meets Buzz Aldrin

This special talk was recorded at the Science Museum’s IMAX Theatre between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and British physicist Brian Cox.

Aldrin was selected by NASA in 1963 into the third group of astronauts and on 20 July 1969 made history with Neil Armstrong during their Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world.

Since retiring from NASA, Aldrin continues to chart a course for future space travel and is passionate about inspiring the younger generations of future explorers and innovators.

Dr. Aldrin is an author of nine books including ‘Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration’ which outlines his plan to get us beyond the moon and on to Mars. He continues to inspire today’s youth with his illustrated children’s books including ‘Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet’.

Professor Brian Cox is an Advanced Fellow of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and presenter of numerous science programmes including BBC2’s Stargazing Live.

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[marksamuelsen]

I met Buzz once at a NBAA Convention in New Orleans many years ago. Inside the convention Big room he was sitting by himself had some papers in his hand and I walked up and I stuck out my hand and he stood up and shook my hand. I thanked him and said “I watched you guys on TV and what you did convinced me to become a pilot…Thank you .” I’m now a 70yo Veteran and retired pilot who had a wonderful life flying around our world.

[Remnants]

The Apollo mission was followed every inch of the way by all of the tracking stations on Earth at the time. Not an easy thing to 'Fake' if reproduced in a studio. What a sad World we live in when some people can't bring themselves to acknowledge what was the greatest achievement of Mankind to date.

[flatearthbusterfallaciesof]

The landing capture of the Super Heavy Booster today, makes building a Mars cycler economically possible.

[JohnIshikawa]

That was a very daring thing that those three did, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins , back in July of 1969 . Luckily Armstrong was a capable pilot who was cool under pressure, and he overrode the automatic pilot on the lunar module and landed it safely on the moon with seconds to spare .

[johngreenhalgh]

That buzzing 84 what a gentleman God bless

[loulou]

Maybe they did go thru the VA belts cause Buzz is bat 💩 crazy

[dpevjen]

Wow! We actually have a real SUPERHERO still living (The SECOND Man To Walk On The Moon)! He is currently 94 years old and still looking great. As a 16-year-old in 1969, it was great to experience our astronaut heroes routinely landing on the moon until 1972. However, nothing in that era was more heart-pounding than the first mission of Buzz and Neil. It was all so unreal!

[threadripper]

Buzz - sharp as a tack and a brilliant man. What an inspiration.

[stickerbombmoto]

If we landed on the moon and everything was so successful, please answer me this question whay haven't we been back since?

[johnsmith-hfhm]

LOVE you Buzz!! A genius and a hero...

[dwaynecope]

I saw him driving down the street in an old corvette in Ventura Ca. I thought I would die. I waved and shouted hello and he smiled at me and waved back. I almost drowned in a pool when I was nine and I woke up in a hospital and watched them launch and by the time I got home they were walking on the moon. My Mother said "I am glad that you lived to see this" I thought, yeah me too!

[daffidavit]

God Bless you Michael Collins who left the surly bonds for good yesterday, April 28, 2021 at the age of 90. Good Bless your soul. Sincerely, a long time follower of your Apollo 11 history.

[robwwhit]

Bart Sibrel has an original Nasa video of him faking the Earths crescent from low earth orbit, using a stencil against the window in the cabin command module....ha

[raimundscheucher]

I am so happy that Buzz never gave up. The years after the moon landings was very frustrating for all people interested and even more working on space flight. We are very happy to have you, Buzz!

[robertgraybeard]

at 29:25 Buzz skims over how the volatiles were trapped at the lunar cryogenic polar craters. That water from comets can be shipped to factories at LEO and turned into fuel (LH2) and oxidizer (LOX) for refueling the crewed and robotic craft that struggle up to LEO. With as much Delta V available as what it took you to get to LEO you can go anywhere in the solar system. The lunar water was only recently verified to be at the poles. It condensed out of the temporary atmosphere created by each cometary impact and each impact by asteroids from beyond the solar system frost line over the entire history of the Moon. Those crater bottoms never get any sunshine, they only see the background radiation of the Universe, 2.726 Kelvin. Some heat flows from the crater rims when they are in sunshine and from the still cooling lunar core so they are at about 50 Kelvin. They are so cold it will take five billion years for those volatile to sublime into the Moon's "vacuum" atmosphere.

I met Buzz Aldrin in 2017 at the Orlando International Airport and helped him get from the Delta Lobby, all through TSA, to the tram and to the Delta Gate.... a few days later, I picked him up at the Delta Gate and to Baggage Claim and to his ride outside.... I got a nice photo with him.

[Suzukidave]

All people should be so proud of these men who risked it all .

[angelmarte]

What an amazing human being...!!! God Bless you sir...!!!

[Slowhand]

I remember these events and it’s hard to describe how big of an event it was. There’s nothing to compare it with these days.

[fioralbannach]

What an incredible man, Buzz Aldrin is. He has a genius level IQ, & a PhD from MIT; he shot down two MIGs in Korea; & was a member of Apollo 11. Christ, what a resume