Buzz Aldrin Checks Out Our Google Earth on Large Multitouch App

At Planet2010 exhibition at SkyCity in Auckland there was a conference with Day One being for business people and Day 2 for the public. The keynote speaker for the conference was Buzz Aldrin, a man of extraordinary talent. He told his life story and what an amazing story. From fighter pilot to MIT student to NASA, to second man on the moon, to America’s “Dancing with the Stars” to President Obama’s task force on maned spaceflight to Mars. An excellent presentation from an inspirational man.

At 5pm during the cocktail function Buzz Aldrin came down the exhibition aisle towards our stand and I asked him to take a look at our App, Google Earth on Large Multitouch. He liked our App and the Apollo Tour in which he featured in very prominently. He was also one of the voices on the narration.

I asked Buzz for a picture with him which he kindly allowed.

Buzz Aldrin with Kevin Wright

I do not know how we managed to get the pic of Buzz descending from the lunar lander seen above his right shoulder onscreen at that point in time! This amazing pic by Neil Armstrong is the first of a man stepping down to the moon.

Then a few people came up and got their pics with Buzz. Suddenly there was hundreds of people coming up to our stand for their picture with Buzz. He stayed for over an hour and was very generous answering many questions.

Crowd Lines up for photo with Buzz Aldrin

I had the opportunity to chat to Buzz between pics on several topics and I was just amazed. I learnt some very interesting things including info about Apollo 11 right from the main man!

Buzz’s wife sat very patiently waiting for him on the TiVo stand. I suggested to him after an hour, he should go and see her, which he did. Buzz left his Blackberry and iPhone on our stand and when I took them over he said” I was coming back for those”.

Buzz brought his USA “Dancing with the Stars” partner Ashly to Auckland to practice what he described to me as his trajectory across the dance floor.  Practice was for 3 hrs a day! Buzz did media interviews most of the morning from 7 AM. I was so impressed with his vitality at 6pm after what would have been a gruelling day to men half his age. He had a smile and kind word for hundreds of people and I was very impressed in what he did for people.

See more of Buzz on twitter http://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz

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