Environment, Science & Technology

I attended a speech at Royal Festival Hall today by Dr. Buzz Aldrin, the NASA astronaut who followed Neil Armstrong out of the “Eagle” spacecraft and down onto the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969. Dr. Aldrin spoke to a packed house of 2,000 people about his time on the moon, and his efforts to come to grips with the personal and professional effects of that experience. He tells his story in his recent book Magnificent Desolation.