Why armstrong and not aldrin

That was remarkable," he said. Clarifying doubts regarding mobility restrictions on Moon, Armstrong said there is no "trouble to walk around. It's even perhaps easier than the simulations of one-sixth g that we performed in the various simulations on the ground," the astronaut told the Mission Control shortly after descending from Apollo 11's lunar module.

In a later technical debrief, Armstrong said balancing while walking on Moon was not "difficult. One time I came close to falling and decided that was enough of that. He wrote that he "started jogging around" a bit moments after he landed on the lunar surface. One of the pure joys of being on the Moon was our somewhat light-footed mobility," Aldrin wrote in his book. Following the death of Armstrong in and Collins in , Aldrin is not the last surviving crew member of the Apollo 11 mission.

Share Via. He was dubbed Dr. Rendezvous for his expertise in orbital dockings. He flew on Gemini 12 in and was on the backup crew for Apollo 8. Then came Apollo He later legally changed his name from Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. His name was the inspiration for the character Buzz Lightyear in the animated "Toy Story" films.

After Apollo 11, Aldrin spent years struggling with mental depression and alcoholism. Last year, two of his three children sought to declare him mentally incompetent, then he sued them.

Both sides dropped the case in March. On Aug. Michael Collins , the command module pilot, stayed in orbit around the moon during their descent. Armstrong's pilot experience included flying a fabled X rocket plane to the edge of space — he was calm during any in-flight emergencies. He flew 78 combat missions for the Navy during the Korean War, and joined the astronaut corps in Aldrin had a doctorate in orbital mechanics and was given the moniker "Dr Rendezvous" after he perfected rendezvous techniques carried out by Apollo crews.

Collins later described the three as "amiable strangers" in his memoir Carrying The Fire. He said that the crew "felt the weight of the world on our shoulders. Everyone was looking.

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