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Article: Lunar lottery is not light years away; Like Space Cowboy Clint Eastwood, Buzz Aldrin is 70-years-old. Unlike Clint, Buzz really has been to the Moon. He spoke to Alison Jones while at a screening of the film in Deuville.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2000
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Forget Camelot and Richard Branson, former astronaut Buzz Aldrin is the man for the job of running the lottery.
Not that he is really interested in making people millionaires, he wants to offer them a prize that is truly out of this world.
The second man on the moon wants to make space travel accessible to the man in the street by turning it into a game of chance.
He believe this will help to over-ride the feeling of apathy that has settled over the space programme.
With the element of competition to be the first to conquer the final ...