2012-03-24
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photo 20:42:06
Buzz Aldrin and Ted Freeman. (via, via)
This looks like it was taken in October 1964:
On Friday, October 30, Ted Freeman and Buzz Aldrin were engaged in a little public affairs activity for NASA, demonstrating their spacesuits and a mock-up of the Gemini spacecraft for a few members of the press.
However, Freeman would never fly a Gemini mission:
On October 31, 1964, Theodore Freeman was killed when a goose smashed through the cockpit canopy of his T-38 Talon jet trainer. Flying shards of Plexiglas entered the jet engine intake and caused the engine to flameout. Freeman ejected from the stricken aircraft, but was too close to the ground for his parachute to open properly.
Buzz Aldrin went on to be the second man on the Moon.
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2009-07-05
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“ People want to know what it felt like. They want us in a few words to generate the enthusiasm that the world had as they contemplated what we were about to do. Well, what it felt like is something that we trained for. We were trying to treat it as calmly as we could and perform to the best of our ability. We tried to repress feelings of exuberance, of disappointment, and be proud and responsible people accomplishing the task that was given to us. That sounds kind of boring. Except that what we did was kind of earth-shaking. ”
The man who fell to earth: Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon quoted in an interview in The Guardian.
