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Perhaps the most jarring postflight experience befell Armstrong's fellow moon walker, Buzz Aldrin. Unprepared for the hectic demands on his life (ticker-tape parades, speeches, world tours), Aldrin was on the way to "a good, old-fashioned American nervous breakdown," turned to psychiatric treatment, and resigned from NASA. Now writing his autobiography, to be called Return to Earth, he talks candidly about his illness. He has also become an ingratiating salesman on TV commercials...
...turns out that Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two men on the moon, not only helped make that giant step for mankind, but made one for Christianity as well. In London, Dr. Thomas Paine, former chief of NASA, disclosed that during radio blackout Aldrin opened two little plastic packages, one containing bread, the other wine. "I poured the wine into the chalice which our church [Webster Presbyterian Church] had given me," Aldrin radioed later to Houston. "In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side...
...spokesman, Former Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Dr. Albert Hertzog, has even claimed that TV is "a deadly weapon" that has been used to "undermine the morale of the white man and even to destroy great empires." But when the walk on the moon by Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin was witnessed by most of the world on television in 1969, South Africa's populace began demanding a look at TV sets of their own. Last week Premier John Vorster's government finally approved, in principle, a new plan that will bring TV to South Africa in about four...
...Last month William Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced that five economic poisons are not "imminent" hazards to humans, and therefore may be used pending further studies. The poisons are the insecticides DDT, aldrin, dieldrin and Mirex, plus 2, 4, 5-T, once widely used as a defoliant by U.S. forces in Viet...
After the film, Aldrin spoke on astronaut training-including learning how not to fall and how to function in the diminished gravity of the moon. He also gave previews of such future space ventures as a space shuttle, which would return to earth for repeated...