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·Happy Birthday, Dr. Buzz Aldrin.
From his twitter:
From his twitter:
January 20th - Happy Birthday Dr. Buzz Aldrin
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pw92676
·Confessions of a watch nerd: I have seen this “buzz butt” so many times on the dial but this is the first time I have ever seen the actual picture.
nice post, thanks for sharing😀
nice post, thanks for sharing😀
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Spacefruit
··Prolific Speedmaster HoarderLegend
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marco
·"The Right Stuff" !
A much younger man would be proud of that right cross, well done Sir.
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·Huge respect for Dr Aldrin - hanging on my wall..
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SpeedyPhill
·January 20.... Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin turning 93 today !
A little MoonwatchUniverse tribute with some Omega trinkets and commissioned artworks showing Neil & Buzz during suit-up on July 16, 1969
(Photo: MoonwatchUniverse)
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A little MoonwatchUniverse tribute with some Omega trinkets and commissioned artworks showing Neil & Buzz during suit-up on July 16, 1969
(Photo: MoonwatchUniverse)
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·A spry 93 Dr. Aldrin still is!!!
One of my favorite candid pictures taken with the Speedmaster case back he signed for my collection.
One of my favorite candid pictures taken with the Speedmaster case back he signed for my collection.
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RI Omega Fan
·Today, and every January 20th, I shall wear my Speedmaster in his honor.
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Jones in LA
··Not in LA anymore.Wear it like Buzz today 😀
Step-by-step instructions for wearing the NASA replica, long velcro strap can be found here:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/another-way-to-wear-the-long-velcro-strap-aldrin-style.135035/
Step-by-step instructions for wearing the NASA replica, long velcro strap can be found here:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/another-way-to-wear-the-long-velcro-strap-aldrin-style.135035/
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dscoogs
·January 20.... Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin turning 93 today !
A little MoonwatchUniverse tribute with some Omega trinkets and commissioned artworks showing Neil & Buzz during suit-up on July 16, 1969
(Photo: MoonwatchUniverse)
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https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/ap11-S69-38930HR.jpg
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Retired US astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two people to walk on the Moon in 1969, has married for a fourth time, announcing the news on his 93rd birthday.
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Evitzee
·Eh, why not. The right stuff goes for the young(er) stuff. Live long and prosper.
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·A friend of mine went on a cruse trip with Buzz. Apparently he is quite the ladies man. Said they went for a walk on the beaches of Normandy. He went off alone, then told her on return that he had been to some amazing places in life, but being on the Normandy beaches were as moving and any of them. (I can not remember the exact quote.)
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·Apollo 11 wrist watch wise
July 16, 1969... Apollo 11 launchday at Moonport Cape Canaveral
During suit-up on launchday, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong wore his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster chronograph on his righthand wrist. However, Armstrong left this Speedmaster wrist watch onboard Lunar Lander "Eagle" as a backup timing device.
During suit-up, Apollo 11 LMP Edwin Aldrin wore his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster on his lefthand wrist. However, at the time of lunar landing, Aldrin wore his Speedmaster wrist watch on his righthand wrist as seen in NASA photo AS11-40-5903.
Omega didn't spot this and in their advertizing campaign drew a Speedmaster on Buzz Aldrin's lefhand wrist. So keen observers clearly noticed this in their drawing with Buzz wearing 2 Speedies! 🤔
(Photos: NASA/MoonwatchUniverse/Omega)
https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11-5903history.html
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July 16, 1969... Apollo 11 launchday at Moonport Cape Canaveral
During suit-up on launchday, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong wore his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster chronograph on his righthand wrist. However, Armstrong left this Speedmaster wrist watch onboard Lunar Lander "Eagle" as a backup timing device.
During suit-up, Apollo 11 LMP Edwin Aldrin wore his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster on his lefthand wrist. However, at the time of lunar landing, Aldrin wore his Speedmaster wrist watch on his righthand wrist as seen in NASA photo AS11-40-5903.
Omega didn't spot this and in their advertizing campaign drew a Speedmaster on Buzz Aldrin's lefhand wrist. So keen observers clearly noticed this in their drawing with Buzz wearing 2 Speedies! 🤔
(Photos: NASA/MoonwatchUniverse/Omega)
https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11-5903history.html
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SpeedyPhill
·Some of You OF-members might have heard the recent "social media" rumour that Edwin Buzz Aldrin offered the first watch worn on the Moon to Swiss Science Fiction writer Erich von Däniken in return for the millionth copy of Erich's eternal book "Chariots of the Gods".
Don't know if I can post the image for copyright reasons, so I'll only show the important bit:
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As I mentioned beneath the photo, looks like a 1969 Apollo XI text caseback, so certainly not Aldrin's Apollo-flown NASA-issued n° 43, which was a 105.012-65 version with Hippocampus caseback. Of course Aldrin owned several Omega Speedmaster chronographs
Some of the early astronauts received 2 NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster chronographs. Normally these had to be returned to NASA as such an extent that Deke Slayton threatened letting them no longer fly T-38 jets as long as the astronauts didn't return their Speedies to NASA as these watches needed a service anyways !
As an interestinf side-note... Post-NASA, 1980s and 1990s, Edwin Buzz Aldrin went through different wrist watch make periods, first we noticed him often wearing Rolex (GMT & Sea Dweller) and later mid-1990s Breitling Emergency yellow dial versions !
. just my five cents
Don't know if I can post the image for copyright reasons, so I'll only show the important bit:
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As I mentioned beneath the photo, looks like a 1969 Apollo XI text caseback, so certainly not Aldrin's Apollo-flown NASA-issued n° 43, which was a 105.012-65 version with Hippocampus caseback. Of course Aldrin owned several Omega Speedmaster chronographs
Some of the early astronauts received 2 NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster chronographs. Normally these had to be returned to NASA as such an extent that Deke Slayton threatened letting them no longer fly T-38 jets as long as the astronauts didn't return their Speedies to NASA as these watches needed a service anyways !
As an interestinf side-note... Post-NASA, 1980s and 1990s, Edwin Buzz Aldrin went through different wrist watch make periods, first we noticed him often wearing Rolex (GMT & Sea Dweller) and later mid-1990s Breitling Emergency yellow dial versions !
. just my five cents
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