Column recounting a three-way chat with Grammy-nominee Laura Marling and Space Shuttle Commander Mark Kelly (now running for U.S. Senate) at a VentureCrush event in New York in 2017. They discussed leadership, creativity, science in government, and gun violence.
: Yeah, this was a while ago. He used to get harassed more than the other Apollo astronauts...maybe because his name was Buzz. There was this guy who used to follow him around to get him to admit that the moon landings were faked. ...Finally the guy actually touched him, poked him. And Buzz punched him right in the face. 80-something years old.“Bart Sibrel has made documentaries calledand confronted Aldrin, 72, in a Beverly Hills hotel earlier this week.
Yeah, so it’s tough...being away from my kids...I ultimately realized that my crew members and I were training for that flight for two years and for me not to be the guy in the left seat — it’s more risky for them to have a guy thrown in there at the end.: Yeah, I’d say so. I’d flown three flights already.
[Narrating the next slide] That’s [a photo of] the space station with the space shuttle on top. The only time a picture like that’s been taken because the Russian spacecraft was leaving. So it was about 3 a.m. for us. I was going to get up and watch this Russian spacecraft leaving. My alarm went off. I was too tired, so I went back to sleep. [Audience laughs]
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