RocketSTEM Issue #8 - July 2014 | Page 80

orbit, a dress rehearsal in lunar orbit, and the landing from lunar orbit, all naturally followed. “I think the crews could see that progression coming and it would keep coming until we landed, or ran out of rockets. The people who were in the astronaut program were either module and maybe later landing, or being one of the two guys who might land on the Moon. So we adjusted to that future in an attempt to adjust to the training leading up to the moment of liftoff. We had a lot of time to think about that and watch other people go through that, but to explain to someone who hasn’t experienced any of that, what we ‘felt like,’ is like saucer is like.” Mentioning UFOs is something that has gotten Aldrin in a bit of hot Moon, the crew of Apollo 11 n