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Forty years back, Excitement Aldrin became the second man, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on the celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the greatest worldwide tv audience in history. Within the years since, hundreds of thousands more have had their Earth-centric point of view unalterably evolved by the iconic photograph of Aldrin standing on the surface of the moon, the blackness of space behind him and his fellow explorer and the Eagle reflected in his visor. Explaining the alien world he was walking upon, he uttered what “wonderful desolation.” As the astronauts later sat in the Eagle, holding out to begin their journey back, knowing that they were doomed unless every system and part on board worked flawlessly, it was Aldrin who responded to Quest Control’s clearance to remove with the quip, “Roger. Understand. We’re number 1 on the runway.”
The airline flight of Apollo 11 made Aldrin one of the most famous people on our world, yet few people know the others of this true American hero’s storyline. In Magnificent Desolation, Aldrin not only gives us a harrowing first-person profile of the lunar getting that came within seconds of inability and the ultimate insider’s view of life as one of the superstars of America’s space program, he also starts up with remarkable candor about his more personal tests–and eventual triumphs–back again on Earth. From your glory to be part of the mission that satisfied Chief executive Kennedy’s struggle to reach the moon prior to the decade was away, Aldrin went back home to the Air Force profession stripped of purpose or direction, other than as a pr tool that NASA put to relentless use in a seemingly nonstop world travel. The twin demons of depression and alcoholism surfaced–the first of which Aldrin confronted early and publicly, and the second of which he attained with denial until it almost killed him. He burned through two relationships, his Air Push career came to the inglorious end, and he found himself offering cars for a full time income when he wasn’t drunkenly wrecking them. Redemption came when he finally embraced sobriety, gained the love of a female, Lois, who become the great happiness of his life, and dedicated himself to being a tireless advocate for future years of space exploration–not only as a clinical effort but also as a thriving commercial organization.
These days Excitement Aldrin is enjoying life with an passion that reminds us what lengths it's possible for a person to travel, virtually and figuratively. As an adventure storyline, a searing memoir of self-destruction and self-renewal, so when a visionary rallying cry to once again place our course for Mars and beyond, Magnificent Desolation is the completely human storyline of an authentic hero.
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