Feb 16, 2011 01:47:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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Geary Schindel e-mailed and told me his story of meeting a lunar astronaut, Harrison Schmidt, the only geologist who went to the moon.Geary encouraged me to post about meeting Buzz Aldrin later the same night I met Neil Armstrong.About an hour after talking to Neil about the caving expedition to Equador he'd gone on, I noticed Buzz Aldrin walking toward the open bar, so I got in line behind him. I introduced myself and told him that I'd seen the news account that had recently been on TV of the man ambushing him outside of a building and screaming in his face that the moon landing had been faked. Buzz punched him out. I told him that the guy had it coming, to which he said, "Yeah, well, I wish I hadn't done it, Goddammit. It cost me a small fortune in lawyer's fees. But it sure felt good at the time!"Buzz also has a caving connection, He read Barbara amEnde, Monte Paulsen, and Bill Stone's book BEYOND THE DEEP and is quoted on its dusk jacket.
