Buzz Aldrin

“Edwin B. “Buzz” Aldrin was the second man to walk on the Moon alongside Neil Armstrong.”

“That's a legal name, passport, driver's license.”

“You heard me talking about, you know, how many feet we're going to the left and right.”

“And then I said, contact light, engine stop.”

“And a few other things, and then Neil said, Houston, Tranquility Base, the eagle has landed.”

“Man, how about that? ... Not a bad line.”

“You're worried then. We were focused.”

“I was afraid that Neil might say, hey, you better go out first and, you know, think up a couple of lines to say when you step on the moon.”

“Because there wasn't any television. There wasn't anybody taking a picture. You watched animation.”

“Conan O'Brien: You were the first man to relieve himself on the moon. Is that true? Buzz Aldrin: That is correct.”

“But not on the moon, you know, you don't want to unzip. You do not want to unzip. ... But we got a little device.”

“actually in the footage, you're the one that's bunny hopping ... you were the astronaut that started jumping up and down on the moon and doing some kind of a bunny hop.”

“Not bunny hop, kangaroo hop. You know, two feet, feet at a time.”

“I thought it was a good idea in front of the TV to bounce around and to demonstrate how easy a guy could move around or a gal could move around on the moon.”

“103:22:30 Armstrong: From the surface, we could not see any stars out the window; but out my overhead hatch (the overhead rendezvous window), I’m looking at the Earth. It’s big and bright and beautiful. Buzz is going to give a try at seeing some stars through the optics.”

“103:15:01 Aldrin: Houston, Tranquility standing by for Go on AGS to PGNS align and a lunar align. Over.”

“But Aldrin himself disputes this in his 1969 NASA technical debrief.”

“Aldrin: “The idea was to get a gravity direction and then to do a two-star alignment and look at the torquing angles after the two-star check which would then give an indication as to what the drift had been since the last alignment. The initial gravity alignment, combined with the two-star alignment, would produce a new location of the landing site.””

“Aldrin: “Had we landed straight ahead (instead of being yawed left 13 degrees), my intent was to use Rigel in the left detent number 6 and Capella in the right detent.”

“The 13-degree yaw moved Capella out of the right-rear detent, but Rigel was in good shape there. That’s the one I used first.”

“I then selected Navi in number 4 detent, the right rear, and that wasn’t particularly satisfactory. It was quite dim and it took a good bit longer than I had hoped to get the marks on that.”

“Image of Apollo 11 star chart taken to the Moon in the Lunar Module Eagle and actually used by Buzz Aldrin to triangulate the position of the Eagle on the lunar surface. Aldrin’s signature appears above left.”

“If you read the transcripts, it is clear Aldrin was using the Alignment Optical Telescope to look in the vicinity of Sirius right when it passed through 19.5° over the landing site.”

“July 2006 on the Science Channel in America. In the program, Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, admits to and describes the Apollo 11 crew's encounter with "a UFO."”

“He described the object, which seemed to be pacing the Apollo 11 spacecraft for hours, as a "double ellipse" or "bell-shaped" object.”

“Aldrin on the show stated that none of the other two crewmen of Apollo 11—Armstrong or Collins—believed that the object in question was anywhere near that far away.”

“Aldrin stated that he "feared we would be ordered home, *before* the landing”

“Aldrin did not state if that debriefing actually took place.”

“the now infamous “communion ceremony” that Buzz Aldrin performed in the lunar module Eagle before the astronauts made their first historic steps on the Moon”

“In his book, he describes a “small religious offering” he made a short time after their landing on the Moon:”

“ontained a small amount of wine, the other a small wafer. With them and a small chalice from the kit, I took communion on the Moon, reading to myself from a small card I carried on which I had written the portion of the Book of John used in the traditional communion ceremony.”

“Aldrin also made it clear that Armstrong did not share his enthusiasm for the ceremony. According to Men From Earth, Armstrong looked on "with an expression of faint disdain (as if to say, 'what's he up to now?')"”

“Hoagland next discovered that Aldrin's ceremony (which was taken from Webster Presbyterian Church rituals, in Houston, which, in turn, "borrowed" it from the much older Catholic communion ceremony)”

“in fact, had its real roots in ancient Egypt—as an offering to Osiris (naturally).”

“Using transcripts from the Apollo 11 mission logs, he and Johnston painstakingly reconstructed the post-landing lockdown procedures that Aldrin and Armstrong had gone through on that historic day. In doing so, they determined that the ceremony took place precisely thirty-three minutes after touchdown on the lunar surface.”

“At MET 105:25:38, or 3 hours and 41 minutes after landing (approx. 23:59 UTC on July 20th, 1969), the following dialog took place: Aldrin: “Roger. This is the LM pilot. I’d like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way. Over.””

“A roughly nine-minute long comm break follows this statement by Aldrin. Presumably, during that time he performed his communion ceremony and then the astronauts ate their pre-EVA meal during this period.”

“During the Aldrin communion ceremony, Sirius had not been on the meridian or the horizon, as would have been the case if its alignment had been based on a purist interpretation of ancient Egyptian cosmology; rather, Sirius had been precisely located at the "tetrahedral" elevation of "19.5º."”

“There was now no question in his mind that Aldrin's "communion ceremony" to Osiris was carefully planned for this precise moment and location on the Moon: with Osiris' wife, Isis, his unique savior and consort, looking down as Sirius from her exact "19.5°" elevation in observation of the "sacred moment"”

“And dead-on as it concluded.”

“Ken pointed out that Aldrin—like Johnston himself—had at the time been a *32º Scottish Rite Freemason.*”

“As Aldrin was a member of the Southern Jurisdiction (which controlled all the Scottish Rite lodges in Washington, D.C., Houston, Florida, Alabama and every other major city that held a significant NASA manned space flight facility)”

“And don’t forget, Aldrin did take the Scottish Rite 33° apron with him to the Moon.”

“Fig. 5-32 - Official flag of the Supreme Council 33º, Southern Jurisdiction - taken by Buzz Aldrin to the Moon on Eagle, bearing the official double-headed Eagle of the Scottish Rite (Hoagland).”

“Upon returning, he had delivered both personally to Luther A. Smith, then the Sovereign Grand Commander, Southern Jurisdiction, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite at the temple in Washington, D.C., in a very solemn ceremony [Fig. 5-16]”

“The Grand Lodge of Texas also claimed that Aldrin had staked claim to the Moon in the name of Freemasonry by a ritual he performed during one of the Apollo EVAs”

“When he posed for the official Apollo 11 crew portrait [Fig. 5-14], he made sure that his Masonic signet ring was prominently visible”

“her husband chose to wear his Masonic signet ring, rather than his wedding ring, in these two historic instances”

“Fig. 5-14 - Official Apollo 11 crew portrait. Most sources crop this image to disguise Aldrin’s prominent display of his Masonic signet ring. (NASA)”

“There's a monolith there, a very unusual structure on this little potato-shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours.”

“this little potato-shaped object”

“that goes around Mars once in seven hours”

“Well, the universe put it there.”

“If you choose, God put it there.”

“Buzz Aldrin, asked by a caller on a C-SPAN program about the charges, stated that there *were* artificial structures on the Moon, namely the LEMs and equipment that the astronauts had left behind”

“any attempt to investigate the types of ruins that Hoagland had alleged was a waste of time”

“Aldrin and Czarnik had been friends since the mid 1960s, when they worked together to develop NASA’s rendezvous and docking mission rules.”

“In the late 1990s, Czarnik related a story through a mutual friend. Aldrin had joined this friend for a round of golf, and the friend had decided he wanted to ask Aldrin about the rumors of UFOs and the strange ruins that they had supposedly seen on the Moon. Around the fourth hole, Czarnik’s mutual friend put the question to Aldrin, who responded by picking up his clubs and stomping off the course. The two men have not spoken since.”

“In his autobiographical second book, “Return to Earth,” Buzz Aldrin recounts an experience he had during an interview in the early 1970’s. While speaking to local Kiwanis Club in Palmdale California (home of Edwards Air Force Base and many NASA contractor firms), Aldrin was asked a simple question: “What did it *feel* like to be on the Moon?” Almost immediately, Aldrin was overcome with a panic attack, and the harder he tried to remember, the worse it got. Finally, he was forced to abandon the interview and rush from the stage, followed by his then-wife Joan.”

“In the alleyway behind the Club he then became physically, violently ill.”

““I try to answer,” he admits wearily. “I say, ‘It felt terrific. Tremendously satisfying. The mission was going well, and our training had prepared us perfectly.’ “But then people say, ‘No ... how did it feel? How did it *really* feel?’” He bristles. “For Christ’s sake, I don’t know! I just don’t know. I have been frustrated since the day I left the Moon by that question.””

“Later, he describes watching a video tape of the TV coverage of his own spacewalk with Armstrong while they were in quarantine. “And as we watched,” Aldrin says quietly, “I remember turning to Neil and saying: ‘Look: We missed the whole thing.’””

“Aldrin has continued to struggle with his inability to remember certain parts of the Apollo 11 mission right up until recent years.”

“Sunday as Buzz Aldrin listened.”

“Aldrin did not comment, but responded by referring to another remarkable topic, so-called zero-point energy”

“It may take 200, 300 or 400 years, but it's going to take zero-point energy to get us to Alpha Centauri.”

“Turning to Clarke, he added, "Correct?"”

“"I'm glad that Buzz has raised this rather controversial question," Clarke said.”