Buzz Aldrin: Let’s all go to the moon!Buzz Aldrin has been to the moon — and he wants you to go, too. Instead of another space race to be first to colonise the moon, he wants all the nations of the world to come together and share in a “new lunar renaissance”.
Buzz Aldrin
The “other” moon landing speech
What if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never made it off the moon? How would the public have been told? Following on from the recent death of President Nixon’s speech writer, William Safire, here is his most eloquent speeches that never was.
Buzz Aldrin: satellite of solitude
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin tells the story of Apollo 11 and the “magnificent desolation” of walking on the moon.
Astronauts star in new Louis Vuitton ad
Celebrating achievements in science and uh, leathergoods: Astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Sally Ride and Jim Lovell are the stars (boom boom) of Louis Vuitton’s new ad campaign, promoting a $1530 travel bag.
RIP Sir Edmund Hillary
Even today climbers talk about “doing a Hillary”. It means, don’t bugger around, just do it, writes Ben Sandilands.
