A CONVERSATION WITH DR. BUZZ ALDRIN By Anthony Ricardi - September 21, 2007 It is rare in life to meet someone you have long admired, and have him surpass all preconceptions. In conjunction with my review of In the Shadow of the Moon, I was able to speak to one of the iconic figures of my youth (mine and millions of others), Dr. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon. The purpose of my conversation with Dr. Aldrin was to discuss the new documentary, in which he is featured along with other Apollo astronauts in a stirring evocation of the glory days of the American space program. After graciously fitting me into his schedule on short notice, soon after beginning our conversation, I realized that Dr. Aldrin is a man of myriad, rapid-fire ideas and expansive ones, at that. It was easy to see why he was portrayed in the documentary as the “brainiac” (or “Dr. Rendezvous,” in reference to his doctorate from MIT) among the other astronauts. In almost every other...