waimate: That's awesome! We've been watching a tonne of stuff on Apollo lately, From Earth To The Moon, In The Shadow of the Moon, etc.

Armstrong has dropped right out of public life and apparently doesn't like talking about it after all these years. Even during the program he was cool and calm, that's very cool that he came up and talked with you. (A couple hours after ejecting from a LM test vehicle he was pushing papers around his office, perfectly normal. I'd be in the bar personally.)

Mike Collins seems like one of the coolest people ever, in In The Shadow of the Moon he doesn't seem resentful about not getting to go down to the lunar surface one bit. Reflected a lot about being the furthest human being from earth ever in the moments he was orbiting around the far side.

In that documentary, Buzz Aldrin mentions he paused on the ladder of the LM to fill his urine bag - - Armstrong might've been the first human to walk on the moon, but Aldrin was the first to take a leak on it. Go Buzz!

Armstrong: "Ah. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Aldrin: "Ah. That's better."



* apparently because of the way the audio was transferred, he actually did say "that's one small step for *a* man" but it was clipped when it came through to Houston.

I'll shut up now, I think I need to.