1980: BUZZ ALDRIN - After the MOON LANDING | Change of Direction | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive

[@DudeDew-pq6st]

Such an amazing interview. Buzz answered every question with such thought and straight forwardness. I loved his answers to every question.

[@jackeroo75]

@@DudeDew-pq6st it is a.l a lie. You have been con.

[@rsm609]

Jakeroo you're an idiot

[@shakeemoff]

Fake landing

[@kirk7690]

As someone who suffers from several mental disorders, i love how vulnerable Buzz Aldrin is as he speaks about this. Extremely classy, intelligent, and graceful! We love you Buzz!

[@scootertooter6874]

Understand where he is coming from. I have similarities with Buzz...although I had a troubled home life as a kid, which I've come to realize is where the lion's share of my future troubles came from. I was a career AF officer, nuclear ICBM crewmember ("Perfection is the standard"), then later a space operations crewmember (no mottos about perfection, but when the vehicles you are flying are each multi-billion dollar assets...the pressure to know the system cold and not screw up remains very strong), worked in the aerospace industry as a consultant, and got to a point where the pressure simply became too much for me to bear (thanks to an unexpected external set of events). That was in September 2018. I immediately entered therapy and dedicated myself to learning and healing (best thing that ever happened to me), and have kept at it. And I have had my battles self-medicating with alcohol. So it resonates with me. I can certainly empathize with what Buzz must have had to go through-- especially back in the 70s.

[@Ingens_Scherz]

Buzz Aldrin is a very rare beast indeed: gung ho and brilliant (in no particular order). If we could reverse or even reset the aging process for just one person in the entire world, I'd try to make an argument for Dr Aldrin every time. I mean, someone has to take us to Mars. That is, someone brave enough to do it, and smart enough not to screw it up!

[@624radicalham]

Correction. NO ONE "has" to take us to Mars @@Ingens_Scherz

[@nogo4u]

@@scootertooter6874If this isn’t all smoke, that’s a hell of a career. Well done sir, well done.

[@christopherdavis9883]

I so miss the old BBC.

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

Amen to that.

[@streetrat160]

I bet you two do

[@djangoknight]

😂😂

[@WaterPickle]

I second that

[@jerryday8817]

​@@streetrat160simmer down gearbox

[@dixnsons]

I love hearing him talking about mental health in such a logical way.

[@repboy1]

What a great guy , part of history but taking freely about feelings , which is even more remarkable when this interview was filmed

[@Ruda-n4h]

Legend and very interesting.

[@jockoharpo2622]

Was it filmed or taped?

[@stephenbender7593]

Great point.

[@grizzyb4149]

Always admired his bravery but him being so open in a time when it wasn’t as normal. He has gone up even more in my estimations. My opinion here doesn’t matter much but I’m sure he feels good about himself which is really what matters. To provide that insight at that time means he must have learned a lot I think. Legend

[@jesus4400]

It is normal that this miserable liar suffered from depression, anxiety and paranoia... You cannot deceive humanity and not have a guilty conscience.

[@dannyboy621]

Yeah seems such a shame that he’s now selling his autograph for a few dollars a pop…he’s done more book signings than NASA’s had missions to space!

[@sunwolf8290]

@@dannyboy621 saying something like that shows what a peasant you are mate

[@zounds010]

@@jesus4400 Calling Aldrin a liar is pretty dumb, as his claims are backed up by tons of evidence. The moon landing deniers, on the other hand, have been exposed as liars over and over again. They are the deceivers here.

[@FictionCautious]

Becoming an alcohol addict and crashing his life under the huge weight of the space lies, surely paid off.

[@zandvoort8616]

It really was an incredible experience! I also miss the old BBC too!

[@JoePCP]

What an eloquent and interesting man, I enjoyed his openness and such a frank interview. It's nice to know that he still survives to this day. God Bless you Buzz!

[@MZ18]

Same here, check David Icke's book Human Race Get off your knees the Lion Sleeps no more, that I have translated in albanian...

[@ECKohns]

Incredible man. And today, in 2024 he’s still kicking at age 94. Outliving fellow Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins.

[@redblade8160]

@ECKohns. He may be articulating himself well, but he could also be lying through his teeth about landing on the Moon! In later years, Michael Collins tells a far different story.

[@Hobbes746]

@@redblade8160 Collins, like Aldrin tell the truth about their mission to the moon. We have a ton of evidence that proves the mission is real.

[@aok4418]

@@redblade8160 He's definitely lying. Nobody went to the moon.

[@ginskimpivot753]

@@aok4418 You people excel in the short sentence assertion, and never seem willing to expand on why you come to this conclusion. So go ahead - support your statement with evidence...pretty please.

[@aok4418]

@@ginskimpivot753 Try some research. It helps.

[@ferdinandwilhelm8749]

What an eloquent and succinct guy.

[@redblade8160]

@ferdinandwilhelm8749. Good liars also have that quality.

[@bez750]

I've learned something from this interview. I was in the camp of thinking depression was something people experienced because they couldn't handle everyday life and they should "get a grip". How wrong was I. My bad

[@MrMjolnir69]

It can be both. Here to help.

[@401xyz]

Psychiatry pushed by bigfarma, no such thing as depression, it's people who flourish in this rotten world who need to have their heads examined.Loneliness is no 1 malady.

[@godsoneus]

Hey nice to hear and honest comment on the Tube - someone who can admit they perhaps had the wrong idea on something, and who is open minded enough in the first place to accept that possibility. It's an increasingly rare trait these days. Fair play to ya 👍

[@godsoneus]

I agree potential financial gain has impacted the idea and influence and understanding of depression - and not for the best. But it certainly does exist. People may differ on the name, method of dealing with it etc...but it's very real. Of course it's not simply black and white - there is a huge variation in it's severity. Sadly, there are now so many people just having a bad day or week, and adopting the term/excuse, that it devalues and drowns out the folk who are genuinely dealing and living with it.

[@bez750]

@@godsoneus Thank you

[@stephendavies923]

Buzz and all others associated with Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and all other NASA projects, were and still are amazing people.

[@68orangecrate26]

What a great interview of a great man. His candor is admirable. I needed to hear that…

[@jesus4400]

It is normal that this miserable liar suffered from depression, anxiety and paranoia... You cannot deceive humanity and not have a guilty conscience.

[@timcarr6401]

Here's an example of his candor. He was asked "Why has no one gone to the moon in such a long time?" Buzz : "That's my question. I want to know. But I think I know. Because we didn't go there and that's why it happened. And if it didn't happen --it's nice to know why it didn't happen."

[@68orangecrate26]

@@timcarr6401 Yes… He talked about how the moon isn’t flat, the way the earth is, as well.

[@timcarr6401]

@@68orangecrate26 So? What has that got to do with anything?

[@paulpvhl1930]

@@68orangecrate26 Looks flat to some people he said. And one couldn't make that mistake on the moon because the curve was so obvious. You guys are bizarre.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

"Magnificent desolation." Words spoken from the moon, by Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, July 1969.

[@MrDaiseymay]

he had script to learn

[@toastedterps]

​@@MrDaiseymayFilms in Hollywood use scripts.

[@MyrtleMMcElrath]

@@toastedterps They also have a Hollywood studio at NASA.

[@Mozart1220]

@@MrDaiseymayAnd you need a new one. Grow up already.

[@Mozart1220]

@@toastedterps Moon landings filmed ON LOCATION.

[@kepler240]

6:09 He didn't blink for at least 17 seconds describing seeing the Earth from the moon. He's one cool cat and it's very entertaining listening to him talk.

[@MrMjolnir69]

Accessing the memorized script. Also looks down and away (mute) when LK mentions the dreaded trigger word. Land/landed/Landing.

[@kepler240]

@@MrMjolnir69 Oh my God!!! He looked down!!! AND away!!! I knew that meant something! I just didn't know what. Thank you for explaining. Without you, I would have thought it was all just a dream.

[@alev4287]

“intellectually the earth appears 4 times bigger than the moon does to us” ?!?! script indeed!

[@kepler240]

@@branako2205 He'd a fighter pilot and scholar. Nothing excites him.

[@marekmkm744]

@@kepler240you see , there is verbal language and there is non verbal language. Sometimes we say more without words. Just by looking at your face , a good or maybe even any psychologist would know if you are telling the truth. At some stage he was asked : did you feel ... ? His answer was : I don't think so. Which means he dis not know what he felt that time ? Or maybe he wanted to say : I think in such particular situation we should not feel that. When talking about your feelings, even experienced during such exciting event, you would not have to invent anything. You would just know what you felt that time. " Do not think! Feel! " - Bruce Lee.

[@smadaf]

Buzz Aldrin wrote a worthy book about the experiences that he describes in this interview: _Return to Earth_ (1973).

[@Christopher-d3z]

Yes I read that book it's a good read

[@rockystelone21]

In his book does he talk about the mission to the moon. Thanks

[@smadaf]

@@rockystelone21 , in _Return to Earth,_ yes, Buzz Aldrin talks about the flight of Apollo XI; but most of the book is taken up with the time _after_ Apollo XI, starting with the quarantine at NASA and then the worldwide tour. A lot of it is about the next few years, including other jobs he took on, alcoholism, trouble in his marriage, and his depression and the treatment for it. All this is just in a few years, the period from July 1969 to whenever the book was finished for publication in 1973.

[@smadaf]

@@rockystelone21 , PS. It's been some years since I've read it; but my recollection of the basis of a lot of the problems he had after Apollo XI is that it boiled down to "I have _been to the moon._ How am I ever gonna top _that?_ Nothing I do next can compare."

[@rockystelone21]

@@smadaf good point! Thanks

[@ThomasHaberkorn]

I read his PhD thesis, loved it

[@zapfanzapfan]

Dr Rendezvous 🙂

[@mattwaters6987]

What a great interview! Thanks for posting this.

[@KainedbutAble123]

A great interview with a great man.

[@Ruda-n4h]

His deadpan comment abut talking with the President cracks me up.

[@Sentrme]

Amazing interview! Learned the hard way about imposter syndrome and depression similar myself. Thank you Buzz for reminding us that we are all just human! And deeply sorry for the unnecessary spotlight on you and wife.

[@andybennett5570]

What.a great interview by a man who put his life on the line in the cause of science and advancement of mankind's understanding of the cosmos. The risks taken by the Apollo astronauts living and working in the vacuum of space with just millimetres of protection don't bear thinking about. I had the privilege of meeting Buzz at the Leicester space centre many years ago and he was a great speaker and very modest about his part in the Apollo program.

[@jesus4400]

It is normal that this miserable liar suffered from depression, anxiety and paranoia... You cannot deceive humanity and not have a guilty conscience.

[@KimSenior]

😂😅😂

[@deez2343]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@craigelliott4338]

How powerful is it when a man who has been to the moon admits he feels and battles the exact anxieties you do? Legend.

[@kjeldpedersen666]

Buzz seems very honest about his trouble with all the attention after the Moon Landing. As he says, the crew were just the men who landed on the Moon because that was where the Apollo program was at that time. Some perfectly capable astronauts between others - it was just their turn. And Aldrin is/ was a serious, hardworking dedicated engineer and test pilot. Not hard to imagine how all the focus gave him trouble. He wasn’t a pop star seeking attention...

[@davidowens8536]

He described so eloquently his period of depression, exactly how I felt for several years until I got help. What an amazing man in all that he achieved.

[@colourist.]

Fantastic interview

[@sirfer6969]

So well spoken, by both Mr Aldrin and the interviewer

[@billthomas8994]

Very brave, humble and intelligent man. It took some real guts to be as open as he was considering the times.

[@markberman6708]

What an incredible thing to watch, fantastic interview and so amazingly genuine.

[@rushslowly9450]

Can't believe that some lessons i had to learn the hard way are right here ... in a short interview with Buzz from 1980.

[@psterud]

Such great and honest messages. Thanks, Buzz.

[@Supernabo]

Qué maravilla de entrevista y de ser humano. Un verdadero héroe.

[@Cormac-jd2kx]

Que jamás viajo por el espacio 😂

[@Supernabo]

@@Cormac-jd2kx jajaja pobre pibe

[@zounds010]

@@Cormac-jd2kx Aldrin walked on the moon, as proven by a mountain of evidence.

[@TheNobbynoonar]

Back in the days when the BBC was worth watching.

[@maxdakul]

What an incredibly amazing man.

[@gdr1174]

Great chat, very open and honest 👍

[@dandkproductions7285]

A TRUE AMERICAN HERO along with The Late Apolllo astronauts ! Salute To Buzz Part of first MIT grad class

[@shanewyatt1793]

Great interview. Mr. Aldrin showed amazing insight into the nature of depression, especially for that time period. I suspect he had type 2 bipolar something I have also which has mostly depressive episodes and short periods of increased energy, outgoingness and also high levels of agitation but with no psychotic features. His understanding of depression as a kinda selfish outlook and that turning attention to helping others is a way to get out of it is really remarkable

[@GW2Vids1]

How he speaks about depression it is incredible.

[@lawrencestrabala6146]

The one and only Buzz

[@frogstrfytr]

This is unbelievable how open he is with his depression! 40 years before we really start to speak about that in the western societies! He is such an unbelievable inspiring and strong person!

[@AshutoshSrivastavaTimetraveler]

He was not allowed to speak😅

[@nitram_nosnibor]

What an amazing man!

[@stevebonafede2777]

Neil and Buzz...my childhood idols

[@MzeeMoja1]

I’ve just learned when on the surface of the moon, you would need to look up to see earth in the same way you look up to see the moon.

[@theestimator]

He will always be a point of reference for me a true human man

[@pchone3011]

He's been to the Moon with 32kb computer.

[@mikejansen1515]

They had a 32kb computer and 500 Giga byte brains.......😊

[@Rdott82]

Exactly😂

[@KimSenior]

Yeah and now with all the advancements in technology we can’t get there? That’s because we never did go there!

[@dcran4d]

30. 30 kb even. 😂

[@battfinkz]

​@KimSenior the Russians begrudgingly acknowledged NASA's achievement of going to the moon and congratulated them as they knew it had happened due to lunar based radio transmissions they intercepted. Go back to bed you absolute numpty, find a conspiracy theory with a shred of credibility

[@MHMcKee]

And so now we see how an engineer approaches mental health issues. Impressive. Thank you, Mr. Buzz Aldrin, for for all your courage, hard work, accomplishments and contributions over the years. Your candid remarks are, well, remarkable. I have observed over the years how the "self-centered" aspects of many mental health issues, as you describe them, stem from the activation of what appears to be an instinctual self-preservation mechanism in response some sort of trauma. I imagine looking up at the earth from the surface of the moon, even that moment alone, not to mention all the surrounding menace (in both time AND space), must have been traumatic - maybe not for the intellect, but the visceral animal in which we all reside, most certainly.

[@00bcls]

An absolute gentleman - incisive interview.

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

He punched Bart Sebrel when Bart proved him a liar.

[@jacqo817]

Pls explains how that was proved?

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@JamesSmith-qs4hx How did he prove him a liar pray tell?

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

@@Ruda-n4h Watch - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon...... 🤔🤔🤔

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

@@jacqo817 Watch - Astronauts gone Wild...... 🤔🤔🤔

[@Kelp8140]

How great of him to discuss his problems at that time in history.

[@robinbolton6064]

“It struck me as odd that we were going to have to stop what we were doing to take a call from the POTUS haha loved that one.

[@Mozart1220]

What are you, 7 years old? You don;t think the first Moon landing deserved recognition, or are to too stupid to understand a radio link?

[@JayBe-gf7yd]

I'm so impressed with this man, what the man had yo go through after the moon, must of been , harder , than the mission,it self.

[@busterljf7662]

It's amazing how believable he makes it all sound, I was almost convinced he actually did go to the moon.

[@zounds010]

You shouldn't be "almost" convinced, you should be convinced instead. We have a mountain of evidence that proves we did go to the moon. The moon landing deniers have had 50 years to present their evidence, and they have failed: not a single valid argument from the lot of them.

[@GregDeman]

He barely even talks about the moon in the whole interview. He spends a lot more time talking about his inner demons.

[@apolloskyfacer5842]

The SIX Apollo Moon Landings are a series of astonishing events in Modern History. Get over it.

[@stephenpage-murray7226]

He did, but not on his own. Oh and they installed EASEP and LRRR. CSIRO team lased LRRR from their facility adjacent to us at Orroral Valley here in Australia.

[@samuelburleigh1895]

My heart goes out to this guy. Can totally relate to the combination of feelings and pressure, from suddenly being one of the most famous people on Earth and for one time truly having to live with a possible feeling of AntiClimax. Thankfully he came through it.

[@MarvelousLXVII]

Yeah--his father put a ton of pressure on him and made him feel bad for not being the first man on the moon. His mother also suffered depression and actually killed herself if memory serves.

[@buzzKillerCSS]

Fascinating

[@ronald3836]

Don't kill Buzz, please! 🙂

[@mariadavila7093]

Thank you for sharing you experiencia Buzz, we love you!

[@DMT-ix9zj]

Many people say it was faked i was a 10 year old kid watching it on TV it was so real. And if you ever listen to interviews of these hero's like this one you have to admit if he is lying my god he is world champion at being a liar.

[@AshutoshSrivastavaTimetraveler]

Its current situation of stranded astronauts all seems deep fake😅

[@SpottedSharks]

@@AshutoshSrivastavaTimetraveler your face is a deep fake.

[@SuleymanBulutistatis]

Fantastic interview; thanks for this.

[@biliusmaximus9510]

I could listen to this man all day. What a hero.

[@darrylday30]

I loved Buzz from the first moment I heard about him getting in trouble for punching a moon landing denier. I’m sure he didn’t feel the same way I did at time but it was a learning experience for both of us. Here I am, decades later, listening to his struggles and learning from him again. I wish I could thank him in person, have a chat and a laugh but I wouldn’t want to intrude on his privacy.

[@Ingens_Scherz]

If Dr Aldrin ever decided to become a British subject (who knows why he would, but you never know), he'd instantly be titled with something like "Earl Aldrin of Tranquility". I think Britain should change its nationality rules, just this one time, and give him this title regardless!

[@titiparisien5915]

😂

[@rogercoziol3027]

This is precious. Since the moon is 1.2% earth mass, you can feel it is round. It is the first time I hear about that. You really have to experience it to realize that. Wow I always tell my students the reason earth is round is because of the curvature of spacetime, but Aldrin just said he experienced it.

[@zounds010]

He said you can *see* the curvature. And he's right: this is obvious in Apollo photos.

[@rogercoziol3027]

@@zounds010 True, I checked but it is difficult to realize that without a gauge (the Earth covers 2 degrees in the sky, much bigger than the moon on Earth, that too is difficult to realize). What he said is that it was difficult to be sure they were straight up, that is they were not sure what was vertical. This is because with only 1/6 Earth gravity, our natural gauge is not balanced. That again you can only realize by directly experimenting it. This is really somebody that went to another world.

[@renanruseler7455]

Great interview!

[@theestimator]

Extraordinary character, human man

[@jeanlefranc3817]

Buzz, the Man, the Myth, the Legend. 🙏🏻

[@smadaf]

Why are you calling him a myth and a legend? He is real, not fake.

[@neilarmstrongsson795]

He's talking about the landing.

[@doraanaisnin5199]

@@neilarmstrongsson795 ahahahaha

[@rippenburn]

... the Liar 😱

[@cahg3871]

I remember the lead up to the moon landing,all the boys in my neighborhood wanted to be called Buzz,he was a hero to us kids.

[@eventcone]

Great interview.

[@rippenburn]

Idiot 😂

[@leehambleton9919]

That man is a legend

[@cmcneill60]

Great interview, Buzz gave great insight on how to get out of depression, help other people. He had achieved something great being the second man to walk on the moon, what else was there after that??

[@jacqo817]

Dr Rendezvous!

[@PabloSanturbo]

What a great man who saw and knew so much! Hero status. It’s a shame he was so sensitized from saying what he witnessed and lived.

[@GoodMrDawes]

The Right Stuff

[@biblehistoryscience3530]

True Hero.

[@lajosjakabfi3211]

3.44 - We are on stage......I played that role....... Because it's all a play.

[@timcarr6401]

Exactly. He was an actor.

[@chrisbaldry4233]

He makes a lot of sense in this interview. Explaining his depression etc. this puts some of his recent behaviour in context. Must have had a lot of pressure on him after his return from the moon. 🌙

[@gregengland5178]

Maybe one of the best Buzz interviews I’ve ever seen.

[@andybennett5570]

Thank you for the support I received in dealing with some very cruel comments about the reality of Buzz Aldrin having walked on the moon. This man, along with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins put there lives on the line in making the hazardous journey to the moon and back and deserve nothing other than praise for their historic achievement.

[@XoXo475]

Their lives.

[@GMAN420BC]

Interesting that NASA deleted all photos and videos of this historic trip. Like it wasn’t important.

[@andybennett5570]

​@@GMAN420BC No idea where the idea that NASA has allegedly deleted film of the Apollo 11 mission has come from. This is one of the the most documented events in human history. The "Moon-Walkers"event currently showing in London is a must-see.

[@zounds010]

@@GMAN420BC That is incorrect. Every single photo taken during that mission is sitting in a public archive, accessible to anyone. The same goes for the 16mm film and every TV broadcast. The only media that was lost is ONE recording of ONE of the broadcasts. We have other recordings of that broadcast. The lost one was made at the receiving station, and this contained the signal before it was converted from the slow-scan signal that was sent from the moon, to the NTSC signal that could be broadcast. This unconverted signal had a slightly higher quality than the recordings of the converted signal that we have, so it would have been nice to have.

[@GMAN420BC]

@@zounds010 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes

[@williamrae9954]

He ended up in a Christchurch, New Zealand hospital as i flew in,i thought about visiting him...i still regret not trying! :)

[@garysladek9110]

Buzz we luv ya.

[@titiparisien5915]

I met him once in Paris, in a conference with fellow French astronauts. Great guy. Very relaxed. He was wearing a Hawaian shirt and tons of rings around his fingers. 100% different from his very serious appearance in this 1980 interview. He was kind of body-guarded by his girl-friend of the time. I think that this was shortly before he appeared in the TV show "Dancing with the Stars" in 2010.

[@401xyz]

Any rings big and skull-like?

[@Young_Dab]

So Marvel got the slogan "Faster, Higher, Further" for Captain Marvel from Buzz Aldrin 🤯

[@radiohifimadnessjuanantoni4358]

Que manera tan natural de hablar de sus emociones. Excepcional documento que muestra la humanidad de éste hombre… gracias 🙏 thank you very much

[@jesus4400]

Nadie fue a la Luna. Despierta!!!!!!!

[@gecko-sb1kp]

For Buzz I think luck played a big roll. Very intelligent man and competent astronaut but had it not been for the deaths if the original Gemini 9 crew he wouldn't have been on Gemini 12. His first flight most likely would have been on one of the later Apollo flights and possibly as a Command Module pilot. It was his rendezvous and docking experience from Gemini 12 that landed him Apollo 11...

[@dynexhobby]

Absolute legend!

[@chuckwhitson654]

Center stage is correct. I think his conscience has always bothered him

[@The-Ward]

Buzz.. courage, talent, focus. These test pilots/astronauts loved adventures and not caring for risks, only the mission.

[@JD-kg3mx]

It blows my mind these World Heros did this in 1969!

[@MRindependentTHINK]

Hoax

[@vincec3773]

they may have been high echelon people but no one landed on the moon if they had , youd be going on vacation there by now

[@rozzgrey801]

@@vincec3773 By your (let's be generous and call it) 'reasoning' there's no such place as Patagonia, as you've never been there yourself.

[@Jackrabfanyo]

@@vincec3773 Are you slow or something ? We've been to the challenger deep a few times already too... Do you go on vacation there ? The Apollo mission took 400 000 people involved to make the program work and was one of the most expensive missions in human history. Try do that in today's world with the inflation rate and NASA's much more reduced annual budget from income tax. They can still go there if they want but then they are going to bankrupt themselves for a couple years to go to the moon and do what exactly ? Going to the moon holds no value to us and goodluck maintaining a moon base in it's clearly harsh elements going back and forth to the moon everytime. you guys don't use your head. That's the problem. You're either listening to your friends over actual scientists or you are "thinking for yourself" on a subject you know nothing about to begin with. Which is backwards logic.

[@Jackrabfanyo]

@@vincec3773 Well, ain't you a slow one. We've been to the challenger deep a few times already too... Do you go on vacation there ? The Apollo mission took 400 000 people involved to make the program work and was one of the most expensive missions in human history. Try do that in today's world with the inflation rate and NASA's much more reduced annual budget from income tax. They can still go there if they want but then they are going to bankrupt themselves for a couple years to go to the moon and do what exactly ? Going to the moon holds no value to us and goodluck maintaining a moon base in it's clearly harsh elements going back and forth to the moon everytime. you guys don't use your head. That's the problem. You're either listening to your friends over actual scientists or you are "thinking for yourself" on a subject you know nothing about to begin with. Which is backwards logic.

[@UzayiKesfet]

he was a peak human at his time. his gemini 12 eva was awessome

[@shamcan]

You can tell, he really went to the moon.

[@rippenburn]

You could if there were photos, movies or videos of him with the Earth in the same shot, like the one's of him on the Gemini missions.

[@brianb6957]

You can?

[@5piral0ut]

I’ll admit he seems very credible. Especially when compared to Neil Armstrong. But he did honestly describe the situation with the subsequent circus as “having to tell people what they wanted to hear”. If he’d really been, I don’t think that would have been a concern, he’d have just rattled off the truth and not cared about how it was perceived. Also, feelings of inadequacy?? When you’ve personally achieved the greatest feat mankind has ever achieved? Or could it have been because he’s under orders to repeat a huge lie over and over?

[@shaunrobertson1064]

⁠@@5piral0utI’ll tell you one thing. I would NOT have wanted to be dragged around for weeks and put on stage to answer the same questions over and over and over..you have very little insight into how people’s minds worked. No man who worked in his profession would think of being forced to tell lies. He’d be more likely to say, look guys, things didn’t work out. Let’s see what happens with the next mission. Those guys spout factual information naturally. It’s how they’re trained.

[@5piral0ut]

@@shaunrobertson1064 which is why I’d argue he had his breakdown. And Neil became a recluse.

[@JamesOberg]

He's still working on future mission design plans, his mind is awesomely powerful.

[@quasar6235]

How can you forget about anything you did during your trip!

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

Giant of a man.

[@halloeverybodypeeps]

I wish the moon landing and flat earth conspiracists could just talk to him in person...

[@justinholmes5614]

The biggest one tried. He got cracked in the teeth 😂

[@eventcone]

@@justinholmes5614 Exactly. 😉 But then I wouldn't wish the hassle on Buzz. Let him live in peace. He deserves it.

[@rozzgrey801]

Talking to conspiracy nuts and showing them evidence doesn't work. Deniers always gotta deny, no matter what the verifiable facts say. They're on an ego trip and they won't let little things like facts stop them. Moon landing deniers have got a lot of their ego invested in perpetuating their stories.

[@timcarr6401]

@@justinholmes5614 But Bart cracked him and his moon myths.

[@johnjohn55555]

Amazing man!

[@silverdragon710]

I never thought I'd say this but Buzz Aldrin is very attractive!

[@magical_universe793]

he was back then then he had facelift

[@Nihaowilson]

Wow, I can hear the AA mantras come out of him... Good stuff!

[@FalefituSooula-qk6tv]

Sounds like the truth was eating you alive. Tell the truth it will set you free, I hope you do 🙏💯

[@SelwynRewes]

did your mother tell you the truth that you were accidentally created in a back street porn movie that she starred in...

[@TheOfficialAT]

😂 what I was thinking.. sounds a lot like bottled up regrets

[@andrewmorton395]

I have suffered from anxiety and depression all my life

[@JMoruzzi]

Clive James's review of this show at the time it aired: A drunkard found salvation at the hands of Charlie’s Angels (Thames), thereby adding himself to the long list of drunkards, reformed or otherwise, who have been featured in recent television programmes. There was another one in Change of Direction (BBC2). What made him different from all the others was that his name was Buzz Aldrin and he had been to the Moon. Having been to the Moon, he found life on Earth relatively unexciting, and so he took to drink. His whole life had been geared to achievement and now there was nothing left to achieve. Buzz is not a very dazzling speaker, as Ludovic Kennedy, who had the task of interviewing him, soon discovered. But he is an honest man and his dilemma made sad listening.

[@smadaf]

His alcohol habit started before he went to the moon.

[@Dolores5000]

Love him tons

[@terencehurst8636]

What moon landing?

[@zounds010]

Apollo 11, 1969. That moon landing. The greatest achievement of the 20th century, and you don't know about it?

[@terencehurst8636]

@@zounds010 nobody has been to the moon - point final and Oswald was not the lone assassin by the way.🥸

[@zounds010]

@@terencehurst8636 12 men have walked on the moon. The evidence is clear-cut, and in 50 years nobody's presented any evidence to the contrary.

[@timcarr6401]

@@zounds010 Do you now call the month of July Apollo?

[@billysnider9869]

Im surprised i havnt seen this or birnt brain cells..great interview hes a hek of a man....he knows more

[@shaunigothictv1003]

"I'd go to the moon in a nanosecond but problem is we dont have the technology to do that anymore We destroyed the technology and its a painful process to build it back" Source: Astronaut Don Pettit on KZbin

[@tonyatkinson2210]

We will be back within 10 years

[@Ruda-n4h]

NASA did not lose the technology to go to the Moon in the sense that it was forgotten, mislaid or mysteriously disappeared. A lot of the blueprints still exist on file; but the individual knowledge of everyone involved and the “organisational know-how” of how to actually run such a huge, complex project has been lost after such a long time. Much of the equipment is archaic, and many things cannot be bought “off the shelf” but would have to be specially manufactured. Re-designing from scratch is cheaper and better. However, it takes years to build up that sort of expertise and NASA is going through the same problems it had in the early to mid-60’s.

[@Mozart1220]

Why would we want to use 1960's technology? Are you driving a Model A?