Astronaut Buzz Aldrin autographed Saturn V scale model
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This authentic 1/200 scale model was signed by Buzz Aldrin in mypresence at a corporate event he was hired to speak at in November 2001 in California. I spent about an hour with Buzz while we were waiting for guests to arrive. As I recall he was excited about “scram jets” and how this new engine will propel us to new heights. Not exactly his words but I didn’t understand much of what he said at the time. Here is his story reprinted from the NASA.gov website… It is only seven months since NASA's made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Now, on the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history. At 9:32 a.m. EDT, the engines fire and Apollo 11 clears the tower. About 12 minutes later, the crew is in Earth orbit. After one and a half orbits, Apollo 11 gets a "go" for what mission controllers call "Translunar Injection" -- in other words, it's time to head for the moon. Three days later the crew is in lunar orbit. A day after that, Armstrong and Aldrin climb into the lunar module Eagle and begin the descent, while Collins
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