Myriam N'GUENOR interviews (in duplex) the American astronaut Buzz ALDRIN on the occasion of his visit to Paris for the Jules Verne festival. He says it is very difficult to remember the feelings he felt while treading the lunar soil. He focused on observation. He then describes his adventures on land, sailing around the North Pole aboard an icebreaker, diving aboard the Nautilus to explore the wreck of the Titanic. He works on the project to launch rockets from the space platform to the Moon and calculates orbits between the Earth and Mars. Colour images and black and white photographs from the 1969 lunar exploration illustrate the exchanges.
To Elise LUCET’s question about her desire to go back to space, American astronaut Buzz ALDRIN answers that even if he was lucky enough to be one of the first humans to explore the Moon, Today, he wants above all to help advance the space conquest for other explorers. Space missions to the planet Mars will be of a different magnitude than the Apollo 11 mission. The future explorers of Mars will have to leave for a long time and install a colony of sixty people.
American cosmonaut Buzz ALDRIN, interviewed by Elise LUCET, discusses the Apollo 11 mission that led him in the company of Neil Armstrong on a lunar trip. He recounts the first steps: he observed the descent of Neil Armstrong and his first gestures to take a soil sample, in case they should abruptly interrupt their exploration. When, in his turn, he set foot on the star, he admits that he had many things in mind, but what marked him the most was the desolate landscape of the moon’s surface, the contrast between the absence of all life on this natural satellite and the extraordinary human and technological deployment of this mission. Images of the 1969 mission illustrate this.