Word: aldrin
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...after Neil Armstrong took that small step onto the lunar surface, the ghosts of the space race are everywhere. Foremost among them is Armstrong himself, who has hardly spoken in public since his immortal line on July 20, 1968, but who joined fellow Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin A. "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins Tuesday to receive the Langley Gold Medal for aviation from Al Gore. And as the space shuttle Columbia sits idle on the launchpad, its mission scrubbed until Friday because of persistent glitches, TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger is reminded how far mighty NASA has fallen since...
...juice out of them. The first words spoken after the Apollo 11 lunar module actually touched down were not, as most people believe, "Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." Rather, they were "ACA out of detent...mode control, both auto; descent engine command override, off," as Aldrin reconfigured his instrument-panel switches. It was only after that pedestrian bit of business was done that Armstrong spoke for the ages...
...rockets did fly astronauts to the moon, six of them taking crews straight down into the powdered-sugar soil of the ancient lunar surface. Thirty years ago, Apollo 11, the first of those historic missions, took off from Cape Kennedy carrying space veterans Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. Four days later, on July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin actually set their ugly, leggy lunar module down on the plains of the Sea of Tranquillity, becoming the first two men to walk on another world. Over the next three years, Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 followed, putting...
Maybe. But one man's vision is another man's fever dream, and to X Prize engineers struggling to achieve a popgun suborbital, Aldrin's ideas may sound loopy. Undaunted, Aldrin and ShareSpace have come up with a plan to raise the capital they need. For $10 or so, contestants could enter a sweepstakes qualifying them to win a range of space-related prizes, including a ride aboard a zero-gravity training plane or a trip in a MiG-25 to the edge of space. Any money left over would be used for the group's advocacy...
Such wheel-of-fortune funding is not the way the space community usually does business, and Aldrin has been working hard lately to court corporate co-sponsors and round up other lobbying groups to join him in pushing his ideas. He admits ShareSpace may never put a single tourist into orbit, but he has yet to see an alternative he thinks would work better. The old way of doing things got Aldrin into space. It will take a whole new way to get everyone else there...