Buzz Aldrin: Guest Host on World Wrestling Entertainment "Raw"

Sad.

While Armstrong and Cernan testify before Congress, Aldrin is associated with this.

Shout out from Hammer
U Can't Touch This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo

The choices Mr. Aldrin is making seem to be oriented around 'get my face back in the public eye' (Dancing with the stars, now this - egad)

I wonder if his support for ObamaSpace has more to do with this recent trend than any stand he's committed to wrt HSF exploration?

I'm not sure obviously, and one has to wonder....

Certainly builds his credibility as an expert in the field of human spaceflight.

Looks like they made the right choice about who came out of Eagle first. Otherwise we'd all have heard "Wow, cool! Spacey, man!"

If you dare question Buzz's commitment to HSF exploration, you obviously don't know Buzz. I think he's just having fun by doing what he pleases. With his age and accomplishments (do you know how much he contributed to the ergonomics of working in space?), I think he's entitled.

For people to look down their noses at him reflects more on them than on him.

A further example of how Buzz Aldrin is trashing his legacy. Imagine people studying Apollo 100 or 200 years from now (when we might perhaps be back on our way to the moon with a trip to Mars 20 years away) and students are studying man's first mission to the moon.

They'll learn about Neil Armstrong, a great pilot who worked his way up to be positioned as the first man to walk on the moon. A man who led a respectable life while in near solitude. Although he occasionally came out and supported various space events and fought for America's return to exploration.

Then they learn about Buzz Aldrin, the talented pilot and engineer who was the second man to walk on the moon, who later had trouble with alcohol, then came out in full support of the policies that led to Americas withdrawal from manned space flight after the nation led the world into space while pimping himself with Snoop Dogg, Dancing with the Stars and wrestling.

To quote the great Buzz Lightyear: You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity.

It's appalling to see men like Aldrin and Bolden have their life's achievements and service to country so easily and casually dismissed.

For people to look down their noses at him reflects more on them than on him.

How sweet! An elitist judgment of others by another elitist! Too bad your elitism causes you to come to wrong conclusions.

I think he's just having fun by doing what he pleases. With his age and accomplishments (do you know how much he contributed to the ergonomics of working in space?), I think he's entitled.

Well sure he is entitled! But your wrong conclusion is that his "having fun" should be taken separately from what he preaches about how taxpayer money should be spent. "Pay no attention to the man behind the WWE curtain", yes ISSvet?

But wait! Neil Armstrong is just as entitled, if not moreso, as Buzz to "have fun". However, for decades Neil has noteably passed on pretty much every single opportunity he has had to have his "look at me" moments. Because he is not constantly craving the limelight, which is clearly what Buzz is doing and has done since his brief stint on the moon, tends to make one at least a tad more believeable when one speaks up and wants to be taken seriously.

The test is simple: Which man would you rather buy a used car from, if you had to? If you actually claim Buzz over Neil, then you deserve what you get.

Who the hell are you to judge Buzz Aldrin.

It was known back then that Buzz had an ego- supposedly that was one of the contributing factors for Neil to be the first one on the Moon. With that said, you kind of had to have an ego to be a test pilot back in those days- Chuck Yeager in particular was notorious for it. But I digress.

While I think this would not exactly be my choice venue if I were an Apollo astronaut, I don't see why we should necessarily come down on a guy having fun. To those who are deriding him for this, ask yourself: had Buzz been up there with Armstrong and Cernan defending Constellation, would you have been making the comments you did? Or are you just upset about the current NASA policy in a way that ultimately has no bearing on what an Apollo hero does with his free time?

I think Aldrin is a great choice to host WWE Raw. This isn't the first time he was involved with something staged that was being presented to the public as reality...

Joking.. joking...

OMG...his EGO won't let it go...will it...being SECOND on the Moon......geesh....give me a break.

Buzz is in it for BUZZ and no one else!

To those who are deriding him for this, ask yourself: had Buzz been up there with Armstrong and Cernan defending Constellation, would you have been making the comments you did? Or are you just upset about the current NASA policy in a way that ultimately has no bearing on what an Apollo hero does with his free time?

As for me, I no longer have a dog in the HSF fight. Whether it be Constellation or the new Mission To Nowhere, it is still NASA holding the reigns and I do not see NASA changing anytime soon, if ever, because government only gets bigger. No, my beef with Buzz is solely based on his ego and need for attention. All people who are so insecure that they feel the need to develop their own cult of personality get the same judgment, in my book. The only material difference between Buzz and Kate Gosselin rests in their histories. But how they both operate in the here and now is identical. Some folks are actually interested in living out their senior years with dignity, like Mr. Armstrong. But again, how you decide to live out your life is one thing... but do not be surprised if people look at your life's decisions as a means to decide whether they should take your opinions on any substantive issues seriously.

But given Neil is former Navy and Buzz former Air Force, perhaps we are just seeing the overt psychological differences in the two services? :-)

Of course Buzz Aldrin is free to associate himself with whoever/whatever organization he wants. His motivations are his business alone - maybe he wants the non-judgmental adoration/attention that attends the hosting - that's his problem. This may be a trashy brain-dead entertainment organization that has little credibility - again his problem.

But then association with such an organization also brings with it a steep decline in a serious/credible public image. That's just how it is. People cultivating a credible public image are careful about whom they associate with - for good reason.

Aldrin's apparently beyond such piffles - beginnings of senility maybe?

Although we space-program-aware types may not like it, or even realize it, many young people today are very unaware of space program matters, and may not even know that we've been to the moon, or have not been back there since 1972, or that the US is currently agonizing over future space systems.
Buzz Aldrin is giving vast numbers of young people an awareness of our space program's heritage, so that's at least a start.
Most young people, and the general public, are not going to tune into Senate hearings or read nasawatch.com.
So say what you will, but space program awareness is getting a shot in the arm from Aldrin's efforts. This can turn in more public support for space spending.

In these comments you can see the aerospace culture at its worst - back stabbing, character assassination, holier-than-thou elitist snobbery. People who turn up their noses at the profit motive of commercial companies, then take billions in cost plus contracts. People who look down on anyone outside the aerospace culture while taking their tax dollars. People who will use any pretext to smear those they oppose politically. (OK, this last happens everywhere, but that doesn't make it right when it happens here.)

This is what people who try to improve NASA can expect to find creeping up behind them.