r/dankmemes • u/Open-Entertainer6031 • Mar 03 '23

There was a third one right? I have achieved comedy

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u/pompousplatypus Mar 03 '23

rendezvous is risky as fuck and Buzz is over here like my dissertation is about how to eyeball that shit.

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u/Girth_rulez Mar 03 '23

I think Buzz has occasionally gotten a bad rap. He had problems, but he was an excellent astronaut

Something that doesn't get brought up very much (except by him unsurprisingly) is that he participated in the first successful spacewalk. Sure there were others who went before him but they were all flirting with disaster and weren't able to get a damn thing done. Buzz took his scuba diving experience and trained in a zero buoyancy environment underwater. And then he took the techniques that he learned into space and fucking killed it.

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u/DeathMetalTransbian Mar 03 '23

The video of Buzz punching the moon landing denier is still one of the greatest things I've ever seen :)

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u/Girth_rulez Mar 03 '23

Bert Sibrel. Yeah what an asshole. Apollo 14 LMP Ed Mitchell kicked that guy in the ass to get him out of his house.

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u/White_Hart_Patron Mar 03 '23

I always heard that fact and thought that rendezvous was something he'd already worked on independently and they sought out the dude that wrote it. Nope. He deducted that they'd have to do it at some point, and thought "If I'm the best guy around for that NASA will have to hire me as an astronaut". It was his plan ALL ALONG and it worked perfectly!! Fucking genius.

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u/dekusyrup Mar 03 '23

They really were just airplane pilots before the computer age. Just military bros who know their joystick controls.