Word: aldrin
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Easily the most exciting piece of hardware aboard the ship, however - for lay lunarphiles at least - will be the camera. Even the best reconnaissance photography before the Apollo visits missed things, which is why Apollo 11's landing almost came to grief when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin found themselves piloting their lander over an unexpected boulder field just seconds before touchdown. That's less likely to happen this time, thanks to a camera that can visualize objects as small as a few feet across. What's more, since the LRO will be in a polar orbit instead...
...Buzz Aldrin: @NeilArmstrong: you go first...
...second person to ever set foot on the moon, he's the star of a Sundance Award-winning film about the Apollo crews. Buzz Aldrin will now take your questions...
Read these extra questions. For more from Aldrin and to subscribe to the 10 Questions podcast on iTunes, go to time.com/10questions
TIME's interview with the legendary former astronaut continues on Time.com. Read these extra questions with Buzz Aldrin...