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Post by dwight on Nov 18, 2009 5:50:51 GMT -4
Attention all NZ members, here's your chance to see (and meet) Buzz Aldrin:
March 12, 2010
Auckland, New Zealand
TBA - Buzz Aldrin (Gemini 12, Apollo 11)
Planet 2010 Communications and Technology Conference
SkyCity Convention Centre
I would highly recommend going.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Nov 18, 2009 6:30:17 GMT -4
I already knew, I even thought about posting, but then figured that we're probably all to broke to go.
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Post by dwight on Nov 18, 2009 6:59:26 GMT -4
I know exactly what you mean. Although, these guys aren't going to live forever and you'll always regret never going. There is the free public day, and I'm sure Buzz will be around for that. Don't forget, the guy is a living legend - and he walked on the moon. I am not getting kickbacks for promoting his appearnace.  |
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Post by echnaton on Nov 18, 2009 11:38:40 GMT -4
We managed to get Aldrin to do a book signing at a space celebration event I was running in Houston years ago. I got to shake his hand. It merely seemed "cool" at the time but has become a memorable event of my life. Like a little piece of Aldrin rubbed of on me. I fantasize about bumping into Armstrong on a plane or some such place where I could talk to him for a few hours, if he would say anything.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Nov 18, 2009 22:27:03 GMT -4
I got to meet Buzz at a convention in Toronto last year. Despite the cost of the tickets and the assembly line nature of the autograph session I still feel I made the right choice. Sure, it would have been much more memorable if I had a chance to talk to him, but I figured I probably wouldn't get another chance to shake the hand of a man who walked on the moon.
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Post by Kiwi on Nov 19, 2009 9:14:51 GMT -4
Buzz Aldrin must have the constitution of an ox to do what he does at his age.
In April 2004 he was in New Zealand at the Warbirds Over Wanaka air show in the South Island, and barely two weeks later, back in the U.S., was up in the new commercial version of the Vomit Comet, re-experiencing weightlessness.
The July 2006 Playboy has a photo of Buzz and his wife Lois at one of Hugh Hefner's many Mansion West parties, and the April 2009 edition shows both of them with Hef at his New Year 2009 party.
Then there was the well-known episode a few years before of him biffing a certain Apollo-hoax nutter in the chops with a fast, well-placed and well-deserved right hook...
Go, Buzz!!
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Post by Kiwi on Mar 11, 2010 5:17:04 GMT -4
From my local paper tonight: Manawatu Standard, Thursday 11 March 2010, page 5
Moonwalker waltzing to NZ Eighty-year-old American moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is on his way to New Zealand to headline an Auckland communications technology conference on Saturday -- and he is bringing his dance teacher. Mr Aldrin was the second person to set foot on the moon on July 20 1969 when he followed Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong. Now he is practising to lead his attractive 27-year-old dance partner, Ashly DelGrosso, in America's TV reality show Dancing With the Stars, a website, space.com reported. |
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Post by Obviousman on Mar 11, 2010 6:20:22 GMT -4
Is he doing Oz whilst nearby?
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Post by echnaton on Mar 11, 2010 13:14:08 GMT -4
Now he is practising to lead his attractive 27-year-old dance partner, Ashly DelGrosso, in America's TV reality show Dancing With the Stars, a website, space.com reported. It's really unfair that the old geezers get to hang out with the hot babes. |
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Post by bazbear on Mar 14, 2010 2:36:47 GMT -4
Now he is practising to lead his attractive 27-year-old dance partner, Ashly DelGrosso, in America's TV reality show Dancing With the Stars, a website, space.com reported. It's really unfair that the old geezers get to hang out with the hot babes. With most men, I'd agree with you. But men like Buzz get a free pass! lol I say Buzz is allowed as many young nubile women as he can handle until the day he dies! (easy Buzz! you ARE 80!)  |
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Post by bazbear on Mar 14, 2010 2:42:53 GMT -4
I thought he was a widower, so I take that back, my bad; I otherwise stand by it lol
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Post by bazbear on Mar 14, 2010 2:59:30 GMT -4
I never realized the whole Apollo 11 crew was born in one year, 1930. Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin on Jan. 20, Neil Armstrong on Aug 5th, and Micheal Collins on Oct 31st.
Mike must have got a lot of Halloween jokes?
(I'm a new years baby, January 1st, I know what I GET lol)
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Post by laurel on Mar 14, 2010 15:29:06 GMT -4
I never realized the whole Apollo 11 crew was born in one year, 1930. Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin on Jan. 20, Neil Armstrong on Aug 5th, and Micheal Collins on Oct 31st. Mike must have got a lot of Halloween jokes? (I'm a new years baby, January 1st, I know what I GET lol) Near the end of In The Shadow Of The Moon, Collins says, "You know, Neil Armstrong was born in 1930, Buzz Aldrin was born in 1930, Mike Collins was born in 1930. I mean, how lucky can you get? We just happened along at the right time." Coincidentally, his daughter Ann was also born on Halloween. |
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