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This is a formal portrait of the surviving Apollo astronauts. That's Buzz Aldrin in the silver tux. I have to imagine the conversation went like this:

ALDRIN: Ok, let's get started
PHOTOGRAPH: Mr. Aldrin, you are aware that this is a formal portrait?
BA: I'm not an idiot son.
PG: Well your suit-
BA: Son, have you been to the moon?
PG: No sir.
BA: Well I have. The moon. The motherlovin' moon. In a tin can run by a calculator and powered by a can of sterno. (1/)

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Iain

@drmaddkap I LOVE those socks

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ijk64✅

@drmaddkap I’ve been in live audiences for two of the Apollo astronauts (all of whom have my respect and admiration).
• Charlie Duke is a great speaker and easy to listen to, and you’d love to have him at your BBQ.
• Buzz got to say whatever he wanted whenever he thought it, the other very professional and Astro/space people just had to let him, then they’d get back to the script. Both were fantastic fun, and I’m glad to have seen them in person.

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Sue

@drmaddkap
Check the socks!
@youfoundryan

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Geonn Cannon

@drmaddkap "You dumb moon? Don't you know it's day? I WALKED ON YOUR FACE!"

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2E0LNE Dan

@drmaddkap definitely channeling his inner moist von lipwig #discworld

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@drmaddkap

As the world collapses into total chaos, I think that magnificent photo would be a proud note on which humanity can go out.

Let's forget the 21st century: it's a total waste of space.

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Christian Kent

@drmaddkap Buzz Aldrin is everything I like in an old man — done it; said it; punched you if you made up lies about it

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US Expat Rick

@drmaddkap
Buzz Aldrin is a steely-eyed missile man!

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ThatAuntie

@drmaddkap I want to know the song that plays in Buzz's head. So bad.

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Tristram Brelstaff

@drmaddkap It is the suit he wore on the Moon but it shrunk a bit in the wash.

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libraryogre

@drmaddkap every time I see stuff like this, I am reminded:

I am 45 years old, and we have not set food on the Moon in my lifetime.

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