Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin presented at the International Space Congress in Jerusalem a shirt with a selfie he took during a spacewalk in 1966 * Among other things, he said at the panel that took place on Thursday morning "Move your ass to Mars"
At the Israel Space Agency's World Space Convention at the Ministry of Science, he took the first "selfie" photo in space in 1966 and said: "We played with the camera and found that it was possible to take a selfie in space. We had an ultraviolet camera with an exposure of 10 seconds and this is what came out."
At a meeting between four astronauts who did spacewalks to mark the 50th anniversary of the first spacewalk, Aldrin came on stage wearing only a diving suit and diving goggles and told, among other things, about his diving experiences in Eilat "I saw Israel from space and the Gulf of Eilat and Aqaba and it was beautiful. The diving in Eilat is amazing!" In response to a question about how it feels to have a character - Buzz Lightyear - named after you, Aldrin said, "It's good to have something that separates us from others, that makes us different in a positive way. In the past, there was not much individualism."
American-Spanish astronaut Michael Lopez Alegría, the record holder for spacewalks among men, said at the panel "I felt like a fly looking down. The earth was full of colors and I felt really free."
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, the record holder for spacewalks among women, said that "you feel as if you are climbing a skyscraper. I had to close my eyes and imagine I was training in the pool to overcome the fear. During the walk we suddenly saw the northern lights shining under our feet and hitting the earth. In moments like these you realize how small we are and how enormous the forces above us are."
At the end of the panel, Aldrin stood on stage, opened the diving suit he was wearing and revealed a shirt that read "Move your ass to Mars", the client's phrase from the movie "Fateful Memory", which he also shouted out loud.
