Buzz Aldrin reveals his expenses for the moon landing – and they’re rather
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who recently returned from a stay onboard the Space Station shared his approved government travel document for his trip to the ISS in 2014.
Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $US216.59 in today’s currency.
The voucher enlisting the travel expenses from Houston, Texas, via the moon also had details of travel arrangements. Buzz Aldrin conquered Throwback Thursday forever last week when he shared his travel voucher from the Apollo 11 mission on Facebook and Twitter.
The paltry sum is thought to include his rental auto to get to the launch site at Cape Kennedy. “#Apollo11”, Aldrin tweeted alongside the images.
Upon returning, Aldrin actually had to declare to customs the items he was bringing back from the moon: mainly rock and dust samples, said to weigh about 50 pounds in total.
The paper, which is beyond cool and more than a little surreal, lists the the mission as a “round trip” for Col. Edwin A. “Buzz” Aldrin, going from Houston to Cape Kennedy to the moon to Cape Kennedy and back to Houston.
“Yes the #Apollo11 crew also signed customs forms”. Moon rocks and moon dust allowed – just no unauthorized fruits or veggies, of course. “Moon disease to be decided”.
When Apollo 11 touched down on the moon, and Neil Armstrong made that historic leap for mankind on July 20, 1969, it turned a day that marked how far man had are available his technological development.