Aldrin recalls 'magnificent desolation'

By Steve Gorman
Updated July 17 2019 - 11:13am, first published 11:08am
Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin in the Apollo 11 lunar module as photographed by Neil Armstrong.
Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin in the Apollo 11 lunar module as photographed by Neil Armstrong.

Fifty years after voyaging to the moon, Buzz Aldrin recalls the first moments of the Apollo 11 launch being so smooth that he and his two crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins, were unsure precisely when they left the ground.

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