Buzz Aldrin On How The Apollo 11 Crew Almost Never Went to The Moon | Forbes

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Buzz Aldrin journeyed to the moon with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins in July 1969, and together their Apollo 11 flight created one of history’s most indelible moments. In the years since, Aldrin has become a passionate advocate for returning to space and rekindling America’s ambition to explore the outer limits. To accomplish that goal, he said, the U.S. can’t do it alone, and the country should dream bigger than the moon. At the 2016 Forbes Philanthropy Summit, Aldrin spoke with Steve Forbes about how the determination of one man in the Apollo program changed history.

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shame how everyone forgets Michael Collins who was the third person with them on that mission... Died this year 2021 and no word.

corrado

You can say it Buzz, we all know, you never left earth.

ItsMeScareCro

Apparently Neil was so bright he could do complex math calculations in his head and on the fly.

roquefortfiles

So how do you go from having 20 secs of full to getting off the moon... makes no FN SENSE... Really odd

hexidecibel

He still fears for his life.
Remember apollo 13 tragedy?
Well he knows what happened and why he needs to talk like that.
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱

gregr

If it was over weight landing. How did it manage to get off the moon surface while loaded with rocks and whatever???

davidkavanagh

Funny forbes posted this 3 years apart from him telling that little girl they never went to the moon.

hayymayyg

He just said to a 8 year old girl we never went to the moon

sinegra

Did the interviewer say they had only 20 seconds of fuel left when they landed on the moon... I guess there must have been a refueling station on the moon for the return trip back to earth..

hyvpkpo

Wow this man is carrying that lie to the grave. Imagine lying all these decades later and still sticking to it.

Only_Gail_

Why don't they speak of the third astronaut ever?

hollyaseltine

Just a quick refresher:
Over more than 10 years, Project Apollo involved 400, 000 people working at major contractors such as Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, Rocketdyne, Grumman Aircraft Corporation, IBM, Motorola, MIT University and 20, 000 other subcontractors en there was even after 55 years not a single whistleblower?
Converted to today, the costs were 341 billion dollars and we've been there SIX times. This is the main reason why 'we' didn't go back.
After Apollo 11 there were 5 more other landings. Apollo 12 to 17 except 13 so 12 people walked on the moon.
Kubrick was a filmmaker, not a director of live broadcasts. The FIRST moon landing was watched LIVE by 500 to 600 million people WORLDWIDE! No self-respecting film director is going to make the same movie SIX times from the same set with bad camera equipment and only different actors.
Van Allen belts, Cosmic radiation? Astronauts are protected by their spacesuits and by the metal shell of the capsule and they fly shortly through the least strong belts.
Why no stars? All films and photos were taken during daylight. Trying to get stars in a photo will result in an overexposed photo.
Are all the data lost? No. The Apex tape recordings of the Slow-Scan TV broadcast and telemetry were overwritten from only Apollo 11 but all the 16mm films and photos are still in the NASA Archive. All tapes etc. from the later missions have all been preserved.
Can we still see the landing sites? Photos of the Apollo landing sites were taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the Chinese lunar satellite Chang'e 2 the Indian lunar satellite Chandrayaan-2 the South Korea’s Danuri probe and the Japanese SELENE lunar probe.

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