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We saw Buzz Aldrin at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. He talked about his life and about his new memoir, Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home.

On the 40th anniversary of the historic moon landing, Buzz Aldrin - the lunar module pilot for Apollo II and the second man to set foot on the moon - told us about the tense moments of the Apollo II mission and his life afterward as he stuggled with depression and alcoholism. In his new book, he reveals how close Apollo II came to aborting its landing less than 60 feet from the moon's surface, how a computer overload almost jeopardized the entire mission, and how he and Neil Armstrong had to manually land the spacecraft with a mere 20 seconds of fuel left.

We highly recommend his new book, Magnificent Desolation.



::Shelley
August 20, 2009

Labels: Buzz Aldrin, Free Library of Philadelphia, Moon