# Buzz Aldrin Raps for Apollo 11 Anniversary

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**Created:** [June 23, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-aldrin-raps-for-apollo-11-anniversary/500749 "2009-06-23T18:57:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-aldrin-raps-for-apollo-11-anniversary/500749/1 "2009-06-23T18:57:01Z")

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Will Ferrell’s FunnyOrDie has today unveiled a new video marking the 40th anniversary of _Apollo 11_: [Rocket Experience](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0be5c681fc/buzz-aldrin-s-rocket-experience), a rap song performed by Buzz Aldrin commenting on his trip. The site also features a comedic [making-of video](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7a26d7505/making-of-buzz-aldrin-s-rocket-experience-w-snoop-dogg-and-talib-kweli) with special appearance by Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Quincy Jones, and Soulja Boy Tell 'Em. Proceeds from the single on iTunes will go to Aldrin’s ShareSpace Foundation. Aldrin also has a new autobiography out.

(thanks to [USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-06-22-buzz-aldrin-raps_N.htm))

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-aldrin-raps-for-apollo-11-anniversary/500749/2 "2009-06-23T19:32:23Z")

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OK, that was absolutely hilarious. “Doc Rendezvous”?

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-aldrin-raps-for-apollo-11-anniversary/500749/3 "2009-06-23T23:52:53Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> OK, that was absolutely hilarious. “Doc Rendezvous”?

I think that was his nickname at NASA. He did studies, perhaps a Master’s thesis on orbital rendezvous. The Gemini program used his stuff.  
He mentioned in a biography that it was easy to pick up women. He would point at the full moon and say, “See that? I’ve been there.”  
🙂

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-aldrin-raps-for-apollo-11-anniversary/500749/4 "2009-06-24T00:42:06Z")

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> He mentioned in a biography that it was easy to pick up women.

I should certainly hope so! The day that a man who’s walked on the moon can no longer pick up women, is the day I give up hope for the human race.

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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buzz-aldrin-raps-for-apollo-11-anniversary/500749/5 "2009-06-24T03:55:14Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> I should certainly hope so! The day that a man who’s walked on the moon can no longer pick up women, is the day I give up hope for the human race.

Or it’s 2209 and it’s now a regular vacation spot for executives 😉  
There is a symmetry in a collaboration between spaceman Buzz Aldrin and spaced man Snoop Dogg. And you gotta love a guy who has accomplished such things and still doesn’t take himself more seriously than he has to.