‘One giant leap in the right direction': Buzz Aldrin praises Trump's Space Force but (trunc)

Dailymail ^ | 17:20 EDT 10 Aug 2018, updated 17:24 EDT 10 Aug 2018 | By Stephanie Haney For Dailymail.com

[SkyDancer]

Waiting for Capt. James T. Kirk’s response.

[Robe]

He was also the first man to receive Holy Communion on the Moon !
After securing the LEM after landing and before exiting the Spacecraft he unwrapped a miniature Chalice and a vile of Consecrated wine and a small Host.

[Salgak]

Dr. Aldrin is ALSO one hell of a nice guy, in person. I’ve run into him several times, over the years. . .

[MichaelCorleone]

“He was also the first man to receive Holy Communion on the Moon !”

Right. And if it wasn’t for the Internet and other forms of social media, this significant fact would have remained hidden.

Big media was anti Christian in general, and anti Catholic in particular even back then.

[Jay Thomas]

It’s not the concept but the person articulating it.

If OhBlahblah thought of it, Kelly would be all for it.

To much of this kind of crap.

[MichaelCorleone]

Is that a fact.

Well, should you run into “Dr. Rendezvous” again, please tell him that he has many admirers that he’ll never meet. We are proud to call him a fellow American.

[Regulator]

Thanks. Saw it decades ago in hard copy, didn’t have the pdf.

It’s still a great reference for terminal rendezvous guidance but has since been updated to include the Earth geopotential equation effects which complicates the iteration and its solution. But his paper was before they got good numbers on all that, the data was still being determined. Was great for its time.

Lotta academy people going to big name engineering schools are not all that great but they get in on the government set asides and do OK. Not this guy. He was way out front on his own. Non-trivial dissertation.

[Regulator]

“If only I could join them in their exciting endeavors”

Hah!

And the world knows how that ended up...

[Uversabound]

military branch to cover outer space

So ahead of the times, and Reaganesque too.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Buzz: Pilot, Commander, Researcher, Doctor, Pioneer, American
Kelly: SJW

[rlmorel]

Yep. I’ll take the feisty Aldrin any day. I don’t know much about Mark Kelly, but Scott Kelly is a pussy-hat wearing douchebag who needed to fully prostrate himself for quoting Winston Churchill.

[confederatecarpetbag]

FYI, Kelly is married to former Lib congress critter Gabby Giffords, so he clearly has an agenda. If Trump wanted to increase missions to the moon, Kelly would call that a “dumb idea” too.

I’ll go with Buzz. He’s been places none of us will ever be. Including Kelly

[Mollypitcher1]

Reminds me of the hell raising that went on when the US Army fought tooth and nail to keep the Air Corps under the control of the Army. Nevertheless, the Army Air Corps became the independent US Air Force. It is now time to divide responsibilities again. Buzz is absolutely correct. A Space Corps is badly needed and should not be under the control of the Air Force. Kelly is not as important as he pretends to be.

I have a problem with the lack of clarity regarding Buzz when it is said “Aldrin, 88, was ‘present’ when Americans first stepped foot on the moon.” Buzz Aldrin was THE SECOND MAN TO WALK ON THE MOON.He followed Neil Armstrong down the ladder of America’s greatest space achievement. He was part of the enormous risk and great success of the Space Program.
Kelly wasn’t there for the history making flights. Aldrin was.

[Cementjungle]

According to Wiki, he was also the first person to pee on the moon

[mabarker1]

Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American engineer, former astronaut, and Command Pilot in the United States Air Force He flew 66 combat missions in F-86 Sabres and shot down two (2) MiG-15 aircraft. The June 8, 1953, issue of Life magazine featured gun camera photos taken by Aldrin of one of the Soviet pilots ejecting from his damaged aircraft.

As Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two (2) humans to land on the Moon, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module.

Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Aldrin graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Commissioned in the United States Air Force, he served as a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War before becoming an aerial gunnery instructor, and later became flight commander in the 22d Fighter Squadron, while stationed at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany

After earning a Sc.D. degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aldrin was selected as a member of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a Ph.D. His doctoral thesis was Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous. One of his first NASA missions was on Gemini 12 where he successfully proved that extravehicular activity (EVA) could be performed by astronauts, spending over 5 hours outside the craft, thus achieving the goals of the Gemini program and paving the way for the Apollo program. Nicknamed Dr. Rendezvous during the Project Gemini, Gemini 12 became the fifth mission to achieve rendezvous and the fourth docking with an Agena target vehicle. Aldrin, under the auspices of the Air Force Institute of Technology, began work as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959, intending to earn a master's degree. Aldrin enjoyed the classroom work, and soon decided to pursue a doctoral degree. In January 1963, he earned a Sc.D. degree in astronautics. His doctoral thesis was Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous, the dedication of which read, "In the hopes that this work may in some way contribute to their exploration of space, this is dedicated to the crew members of this country's present and future manned space programs. “If only I could join them in their exciting endeavors!" Aldrin chose his doctoral thesis on the basis that it would help him be selected as an astronaut.

Aldrin set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969 (UTC), 9 minutes after Armstrong first touched the surface. A Presbyterian elder, Aldrin was the first person to hold a religious ceremony on the Moon. After he radioed Earth asking for a silent moment of contemplation, he privately took communion on the surface of the Moon, also becoming the first person to consume food and drink on the Moon. Although he was first rejected from NASA's astronaut program because he was not a test pilot, upon his retirement from the program, he became Commandant of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. Aldrin was given numerous honors and is listed in several Halls of Fame. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong and Aldrin made the first lunar landing becoming the first and second people, respectively, to walk on the Moon. This mission allowed Aldrin to maintain his record EVA duration until it was surpassed in the Apollo 14 mission. Aldrin's first words on the Moon were "Beautiful view", to which Armstrong asked "Isn't it magnificent?". Aldrin answered, "Magnificent desolation." He was also the first person to urinate while on the Moon. Aldrin, a Presbyterian elder, was the first person to hold a religious ceremony on the Moon. After landing on the Moon, he radioed Earth: "I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours, and to give thanks in his or her own way." He took communion on the surface of the Moon, but he kept it secret because of a lawsuit brought by some witch atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair that had an Oversized Hairball over the reading of Genesis on Apollo 8. Aldrin, then a church elder, used a home communion kit given to him, and recited words used by his pastor at Webster Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Dean Woodruff. The communion elements were the first food and liquid consumed on the Moon: in Guideposts, Aldrin stated: "It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements."

Aldrin's lunar footprint in a photo taken by him on July 21, 1969
What’s that you say kelly ? No that’s NOT your footprint on the Lunar Surface...

[Regulator]

Yeah. Buzz is a Real American.

For real.

[mabarker1]

I was going deeper into not getting any sleep for 3-4 days and going goofy.

I agree that movie will suck because of LIES.

I saw this article when I was looking for the bad Soyuz one.

I was going to try to rest and Arnold Schwarzenegger voice was in reference the Terminator movie.

Does that make sense now ?

[stanne]

Dunno. But this movie will be on my bad list. I’ll bet it bombs

Apollo 13 is a masterpiece These filmmakers don’t get it. Tgey ignore their own formula

[Salgak]

Actually, I’ve managed to “collect the whole set” for Apollo 11. I ran into Dr. Collins at an event at the Air and Space Museum, and was apparently the only one to recognize him.

The tough one was Dr. Armstrong. I ran into HIM in an elevator. He looked familiar. So I asked, “Excuse me, but has anyone ever told you that you look like Neil Armstrong, the Astronaut ?”

He smiled. “That would probably be because I am Neil Armstrong. . . “

I stuck out a hand. “Pleasure and an honor to meet you, sir. . . “ We shook hands, and then his floor came. . .

[MichaelCorleone]

Nice!

But I have to admit I am more than a little jealous...