Occulomency has Buzz Aldrin's autograph.
Occulomency wears the same watch that Aldrin wore on the moon.
Occulomency has the same sunglasses that were issued to the Apollo Astronauts.
Occulomency's first email address was "buzz@iol.ie".
Occulomency thinks that Buzz Aldrin is a cock.
The trouble was, Aldrin wanted to set foot on the moon before Armstrong. During Gemini, the Commander had stayed in the capsule whilst the Pilot did the EVA. So, Aldrin started making enquiries about who would go out first, according to him, jusr simply to clear the matter up.
Within the astronaut office this caused some friction with his fellow astronauts, Eugene Cernan being one such astronaut who in his book, 'The Last Man On The Moon' wrote the following on the whole matter.
"Buzz Aldrin had worked himself into a frenzy with his campaign to be the first man to walk on the Moon. He came flapping into my office at the Manned Spacecraft Center one day like an angry stork, laden with charts and graphs and statistics, arguing what he considered to be obvious-that he, the lunar module pilot, and not Neil Armstrong, the mission commander, should be the first one down the ladder on Apollo 11. Since I shared an office with Neil, who was away training that day, I found Aldrin's arguments both offensive and ridiculous. Ever since learning that Apollo 11 would attempt the first Moon landing, Buzz had pursued this peculiar effort to sneak his way into history, and was met at every turn by angry stares and muttered insults from his fellow astronauts."
Cernan and Aldrin didn't like each other much.
Apollo 7's Walt Cunningham said, "We had always assumed Neil Armstrong, who was the spacecraft commander, was going to be the first man on the Moon. We always felt like it was an unnecessary conflict that was created by Buzz and kinda left a bad taste in other peoples mouth about Buzz making this fuss about it."
Aldrin said in one of his books, "At one time I made the observation to Neil that I felt we needed a decision on this and that one way or the other, regardless of how I felt or he felt, we needed to have a decision made on this. His observation was something to the effect that he realised the historical significance and that he was not going to make a decision that would rule him out of that opportunity."
Aldrin's books are the only ones that show him in a positive light.
In the end it was up to Deke Slayton, one of the original Mercury 7 Astronauts, to take the Aldrin aside and state simply that Armstrong would be first out followed by Aldrin and that was an end to the matter as far as Slayton was concerned.
Slayton wrote: "It bounced back to me and I told Buzz I thought it should be Neil on seniority. I felt pretty strongly that the ones who had been with the program the longest deserved first crack at the goodies. Neil had come into the program in 1962, a year ahead of Buzz, so he had first choice.
If you read Tom Kelly's book about designing and engineering the Lunar Module, it turns out there was another reason Aldrin couldn't go out first. The Lunar Module had just the one hatch on the front of the lunar module and the it opened to the right, inwards.
Aldrin took the decision well. Then he took no decent photographs of Armstrong on the lunar surface.
Twat.
Yes, I know the second picture is of Al Bean, but you can see his Speedmaster really well.
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