Buzz Aldrin describes the treasures he left on the moon — Transcript

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1. 0:00mmm yeah there were some official
2. 0:04directions from headquarters that we
3. 0:07should take certain things and and it
4. 0:11ended up that there was a medallion for
5. 0:15Yuri Gagarin and for car Komarov had
6. 0:21been killed in a space accident and
7. 0:24there was a patch from the Apollo 1 crew
8. 0:29it wasn't a battalion and then there was
9. 0:32a silicon disk and that was quite
10. 0:37special and I think it's been pretty
11. 0:41well publicized it had itched into it
12. 0:44real fine messages from 75 leaders
13. 0:49around the world and of course they had
14. 0:53lists of what they said but you couldn't
15. 0:56read it because it was edge since and so
16. 0:59fine and that was there and I felt that
17. 1:03there was something else they could have
18. 1:07gone in there wasn't scheduled because I
19. 1:11thought the symbolic thing about our
20. 1:14patch it sure it was the eagle lunar
21. 1:18surface and Earth's in the background
22. 1:20but the olive branch was when it was
23. 1:23quite significant so I went to a local
24. 1:25jeweler and had picked out little pins
25. 1:31it looked like olive branches so I got
26. 1:34four of them one for each of the crew
27. 1:37and their wives and they won that we
28. 1:41would leave on the moon so that was also
29. 1:43put in there so there were I guess four
30. 1:47four things and I was given the great
31. 1:51honor of doing that well instead of
32. 1:55carrying them in a pocket sort of loose
33. 1:57I said well let's put them in a little
34. 2:00pouch so then I can just leave that it
35. 2:07it didn't appear as though a real
36. 2:12significant ceremony ought to be set
37. 2:15aside for for leaving those on the moon
38. 2:18on the surface so there was a pocket in
39. 2:22the spacesuit up here sometimes you put
40. 2:26sunglasses or pencils and so I put that
41. 2:29pouch up there because I didn't have
42. 2:32other pockets that were obvious so we
43. 2:37went through all our activities and I
44. 2:39start going up the ladder and you know
45. 2:44what when we were talking back and forth
46. 2:46everybody heard what we were saying and
47. 2:50so Neil I'm not sure what what the word
48. 2:57was appropriately he didn't say hey
49. 3:01busted you what are you gonna do about
50. 3:04that he said did you forget something
51. 3:08and I thought oh yeah okay so I reached
52. 3:12up have that little packet that was the
53. 3:16ceremoniously depositing
54. 3:20you