Call an old fighter pilot a coward and a liar twice...

[thriftyandboringinohio]

Even though he was 72 years old at the time, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin had the same spirit as when he was a combat fighter pilot. A soft young man discovered that after reading too many internet conspiracy sites and deciding to be more than rude to old Buzz. I just found this video and LMAO.

[Master Shake]

Re: Call an old fighter pilot a coward and a liar...

Ha! Good for Buzz!

[GRG55]

Re: Call an old fighter pilot a coward and a liar...

Even though he was 72 years old at the time, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin had the same spirit as when he was a combat fighter pilot. A soft young man discovered that after reading too many internet conspiracy sites and deciding to be more than rude to old Buzz. I just found this video and LMAO.

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One of the books in my aviation library has the Korean War gunsight photo sequence, originally published in LIFE magazine, from Aldrin's F-86 Sabre as he bagged a MiG-15. I wonder if that young nitwit thinks that was staged too. He should haul his ass down to the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution on the Mall in D.C. instead of wasting his life trolling conspiracy websites; he might learn something. Some people's children...

BTW, I mentioned this once before in a post a few years back...one of the very best accounts of being an astronaut in the 1960s NASA space program is Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins' book "Carrying the Fire". His comments about the psychology of being totally cut off from all other humanity on every orbit around the back side of the moon, or the possibility of having to return to earth alone in the event the lunar module rockets wouldn't ignite to get Armstrong and Aldrin off the moon's surface, have stayed with me.