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Originally Posted by norm
Oddly enough, I was hoping to get a close encounter with Buzz Aldrin a few years ago when Microsoft were launching Halo Reach on XBOX at UTS.
I sat 3 chairs away from him before he came on stage to do a speech on Halo, technology and its similarity to the Apollo missions..... Anyway to cut a long story short, there were a number of people, nerdier than me hoping to maybe, just maybe get an autograph or even a photo next to him.
The guy had absolutely no bar of it, nor his P#@#s hand entourage, made up of his wife and step daughter. It was quite sad really. Not so much not getting an autograph or even photo, but their whole attitude. It was almost like, unless you pay us....go away.
That said, he had no problems doing it with the sponsors/hosts.
I felt sorry for the other people wanting to meet/greet him.
Maybe I'm a bit harsh, who knows...... after that, I'll always see him as the bloke who came 2nd 
Norm |
That really disappointing to hear, I always get the impression that he never got over not being selected to command Apollo 11 and be the first to walk on the moon. I spent 8 years at the RAAF Flight TRaining School at Pearce WA...Aldrin reminds me of some of the up and coming pilots I had the misfortune of strapping into an aircraft.
On a plus side I nearly got to meet one of my so called hero's...Sir Douglas Bader...but that was so many years ago.