The reply, from a man who famously refuses to give autographs and long refused to speak about the Moon landings even as his colleagues enthusiastically spoke of their adventures, was surprising enough in itself. Perhaps more surprising still was the detail that an apparently enthused Armstrong went into about the difficulties of exploration.
First there was the question of television coverage for us back on Earth and for mission control. Planting a fixed video camera on the Moons surface was one of Armstrongs first tasks and Nasa was very clear that thereafter everything he and Aldrin did had to be within its range of view, which wasnt large. They wanted to be able to see, for instance, how well they were walking in those clunky outfits.
Here we learn, however, that even Armstrong himself was unable entirely to play by the rules. I candidly admit that I knowingly and deliberately left the planned working area out of TV coverage to examine and photograph the interior crater walls for possible bedrock exposure or other useful information, he acknowledged. I felt the potential gain was worth the risk.
Armstrong repeated his disappointment that Nasa has not been back and his frustration with those who argue theres little point, since that space frontier has already been reached.
I find that mystifying, he said. It would be as if 16th-century monarchs proclaimed that we need not go to the New World, we have already been there...
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