RocketSTEM Issue #8 - July 2014 | Page 81

Houston, there’s a light that’s towing along with us toward the Moon,’ that would not have been too smart a transmission. So instead we ask a reassuring coverup question. We said ‘Hey can you tell us how far away the the engine and move away at an accelerating speed, but the people at Houston were probably puzzled by the question. When they came back 10 minutes later and said it’s about six either it was going mighty fast still, or that wasn’t what we were looking at. We didn’t really get great further satisfaction by looking through the power sextant. “It certainly wasn’t rotating like a saucer. They was no reason to suspect, other than an unusual sun of those panels. Now I discovered gradually in talking to people that they had never heard that de www.RocketSTEM .org “I had a long interview with the BBC and I decided to explain it to the best of my knowledge, which always confuses somebody, especially when they want to be confused. So the UFO people back in the States were very angry with me for not giving them the scoop. “Charles Berlitz wrote his book and established his credibility in had reported observing unusual observations, including Neil and I on the Moon talking about some green creatures on the other side of a crater. That was heard by Charles himself. I sued him and that scared him. It cost me a little bit of money but it was worth it. And so was using Bart Sibrel’s chin as the target for my hotel and demanding he prove he had walked on the Moon). That cost me a little bit too, but it gave me a lot of prestige.” Aldrin has found himself asked all sorts of questions while out and about during the years. And the questions aren’t always about the Apollo 11 mission. “I was coming back from a trip that landed at LAX two years ago and as I was walking out there were three guys – one with the camera held low and aimed directly at me – and he said ‘Hey Buzz Aldrin, what do you think about that guy who set a record and jumped out of a balloon and he came back to Earth? What do you think about Felix Baumgartner?’ I had just enough time to get my mind working as I was walking, and I said ‘Well, that sure was a giant leap for Red Bull!’ I don’t think there is going to be second jump. Who’s going to do that?” Only 12 people have walked on the Moon. Another dozen have travelled to the Moon but stayed in 79 79