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A comment from twitter....With computer overloaded and landing site strewn with boulders, he cooly adjusted and landed the eagle safely with 15 seconds of fuel to spare'
I got tears in my eyes
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The only problem drinker is the one that doesn't stand his round
Very sad. "hero" is an overused title, but he earned it a thousand times over. ... I am a huge space fan and had the honor of being a chaperone to Buzz Aldrin a couple of years ago at an event at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA. The Moonwalker and the space cadet | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
What's really terrible is he is probably less known than Katie Price and Peter Andre by today's kids. To me he is a true hero. He literally risked his life when the rocket took off