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Man who went to the Moon in the 60s, Buzz Aldrin marries again at 93
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, a US astronaut who took part in the illustrious Apollo 11 mission that touched down on the Moon in 1969, made his entrance down the aisle on his 93rd birthday. He has been married four times.
Aldrin tweeted on Saturday that the previous day, he and his “longtime love Dr. Anca Faur” had “tied the knot.” In a tiny, private ceremony in Los Angeles,...
The Strange Story Of The Israeli Flag That Neil Armstrong Allegedly Took To The Moon And Back
Back in the 1970s, the Jewish-Israeli press reported that for some unexplained reason, Apollo 11 astronaut, Neil Armstrong, carried a small Israeli flag with him all the way to the moon and back — and that it was ultimately presented as a gift to the Israeli President on behalf of President Richard Nixon:
At a short ceremony on April 19, 1970, Israel received a rare gift – two pieces of the moon...