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NEWS ABOUT: Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin stories: 10 news summaries

(Newser) - What do you do when you’re the first men back from the moon and you have a cargo of moon rocks and other lunar specimens? Make a customs declaration, of course. Well, not really, Space.com reports. A customs form, filed in Honolulu and released by NASA to commemorate... More »

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NASA • astronauts • space travel • Buzz Aldrin • Neil Armstrong • Apollo 11 • Michael Collins • customs declaration

 Moon-Landing Denier 
 Exposed as a Cheat 

Buzz Aldrin punched out man who claimed landings were faked

Jul 21, 09 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A filmmaker who persistently claims the moon landings were a hoax is beginning to look like a hoaxer himself, the Examiner reports. Bart Sibrel has produced documentaries labeling the Apollo landing a fake, but a new video has surfaced proving he deliberately mismatched NASA's audio and video footage to mislead... More »

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NASA • Buzz Aldrin • hoax • moon landings • conspiracy theory • Apollo 11 • Bart Sibrel

(AP) - President Barack Obama today hailed the Apollo 11 astronauts as "three American heroes," and claimed such exploration spurs ingenuity and inspires students in math and science. Obama commemorated the moment, 40 years ago today, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took man's first steps on the moon. Obama... More »

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NASA • space travel • moon • Buzz Aldrin • President Obama • Neil Armstrong • Apollo 11 • Michael Collins

(Newser) - Forty years ago today Neil Armstrong strode across the surface of the moon and became the most famous man in the galaxy. Then he disappeared—leaving NASA for a university job, attending almost no public functions, and refusing nearly all interview requests. "Neil was very much the same person... More »

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NASA • space exploration • astronauts • moon • Buzz Aldrin • moon landings • Neil Armstrong • Apollo 11

 NASA: Oops, We Erased  
 the Moon Landing Tapes 

Footage likely recorded over when tape supply was low

Jul 16, 09 12:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - After searching 3 years for the original tapes of the 1969 moon landing, NASA officials realized they’d spaced: The footage had most likely been taped over, NPR reports. They picked through “racks of documents, tapes, all kinds of things from NASA and other agencies,” says a searcher,... More »

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NASA • video • Buzz Aldrin • moon landings • recording • Neil Armstrong • Apollo 11

(Newser) - America should boldly turn its space program toward colonizing Mars instead of trying to retrace the dusty footprints that he and Neil Armstrong made on the Moon 40 years ago, Buzz Aldrin writes in the Washington Post on the anniversary of Apollo 11's launch. NASA's attempt to resume lunar exploration... More »

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NASA • Mars • moon • Buzz Aldrin • lunar exploration • moon landings • Neil Armstrong • Apollo 11

 Buzz Aldrin 
 Raps With 
 Snoop Dogg 



Astronaut pairs with unlikely collaborators to benefit charity

Jun 23, 09 2:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - What’s next for a man who’s walked on the moon? For 79-year-old astronaut Buzz Aldrin, it’s recording a rap song, USA Today reports. “I'm not too good at carrying a tune, but I do have rhythm,” says Aldrin, who collaborated with Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy,... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • Buzz Aldrin • rapper • rap music • Snoop Dogg • Quincy Jones • Soulja Boy • Jay-ZTV

 Armstrong 
 Flubbed 
 Moon Line, 
 Made It Stellar 

Astro put tiny poetic spin on script

Jun 4, 09 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stressed out Neil Armstrong flubbed his line as he became the first human to step on the moon—and turned it into out-of-this-world poetry, reports the BBC. The astronaut was supposed to say: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," as he walked onto... More »

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NASA • astronauts • moon • Buzz Aldrin • moon landings • outer space • Neil Armstrong

 After 4 Decades, 
 Physicist Solves 
 Mystery of 
 Moon Dust 

After decades of wondering, Aussie explains its stickiness

Apr 23, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moon dust has been a “bloody nuisance” to NASA for decades, says a physicist: it sticks to spacesuits, clogs instruments, and could be a health risk for future colonists. Scientists believe the stickiness is due to a positive charge from the sun’s rays, NASA says. Now the physicist,... More »

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NASA • science • space • physicist • moon • Buzz Aldrin • Neil Armstrong

Aldrin Likes Nowak's Grit, Bladder Control

Lovesick astronaut "admired" by second man on the moon

Sep 10, 07 7:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Second man on the moon Buzz Aldrin salutes lovesick astronaut Lisa Nowak's gritty restroom-less cross-country drive, telling Time: "I think Nowak should be admired for traveling across the country at night and not getting out of her car to put in gas or go to the restroom,"... More »

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depression • alcohol • Lisa Nowak • Astronaut love triangle • astronauts • Buzz Aldrin

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