The coolest thing you'll see today; Buzz on a jet ski...

[Dennis Donovan]

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Buzz Aldrin ✔ @TheRealBuzz

Never lose your sense of adventure. #WednesdayWisdom

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9:54 PM - Jun 19, 2019

That's some 89-year-old-moonwalker-badass right there!

[democratisphere]

1. Like his ride too!

[Ilsa]

2. Looks like there's room for two more.

Anyone want to photoshop in a couple of old buddies?

[pecosbob]

3. My family lived next door to him in the sixties in Nassau Bay (Houston)

Always admired the guy. I used to watch him work on the gymnast rings in his back yard (yes he was buffed), and he drove a really cool sports car (to a ten year old).

His son Andy had lots of pets, including a spider monkey that used to like to jump onto my head or shoulder from the trees in the yard and steal my eyeglasses when I was like 10 or 11 years old...try explaining that one to your parents.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Guy kept his stuff together on Gemini XII, too.

http://www.astronautix.com/g/gemini12.html

Thank you for sharing the special memories, pecosbob!

[pecosbob]

5. They were a brave lot

I also went to elementary school with the children of the three men killed on Apollo 8, so I have a lot of respect for all of them.

[Trailrider1951]

6. Oops! I think you mean Apollo 1, January 1967

Gus Grissom, Edward White, Roger Chaffee

[Brother Buzz]

7. Apollo 8 was a total success and they brought back film AND the Hasselblad

Perhaps you've seen The Whole Earth Catalog.

The iconic photograph, Earthrise, by William Anders, Apollo 8, 1968, was the cover photo of the second and third editions.

[pecosbob]

8. You are in fact correct...my senior moment.

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I tend to conflate things in my dotage.