Saturday, May 01, 2004
No place for seconds
Hands up, those who know who he is.
Hmm.. doesn't ring a bell, you say?
Not surprising. After all hardly anyone remembers a second. But yea, he's the guy who joined Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon for a spacewalk on July 20, 1969. They were together on the same space exploration program, ate and slept and shitted in the same spacecraft for at least a hundred hours, and stepped on the same space moon seconds of each other.
And the world places Armstrong on the pedestal for that-- his 'giant leap for mankind'. But they don't remember Aldrin. No. Not the second.
Aldrin, Edwin Eugene, Jr
Hands up, those who know who he is.
Hmm.. doesn't ring a bell, you say?
Not surprising. After all hardly anyone remembers a second. But yea, he's the guy who joined Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon for a spacewalk on July 20, 1969. They were together on the same space exploration program, ate and slept and shitted in the same spacecraft for at least a hundred hours, and stepped on the same space moon seconds of each other.
And the world places Armstrong on the pedestal for that-- his 'giant leap for mankind'. But they don't remember Aldrin. No. Not the second.
posted by redshot on 1.5.04
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