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Transcript: Buzz Aldrin Tells Why We Should Continue Space Travel
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
- Article date:
- August 4, 1996
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Being one of the lunar pioneers and the author of a science fiction
novel, Buzz Aldrin discusses the ebb and inefficiency of today's space
travel. He believes people are too focused on the here and now.
LIANE HANSEN, Host: July 20, 1969.
NEIL ARMSTRONG, Astronaut: [excerpt from lunar landing transmission]
You're on- You've got three more steps and then a long one.
LIANE HANSEN: Mission commander Neil Armstrong, the first human to
set foot on the surface of the moon, watches as lunar module pilot
Buzz Aldrin backs down the ladder of the lunar lander.
BUZZ ALDRIN, Astronaut: [excerpt from lunar landing transmission]
OK, I'm going to leave that ...