During a 2012 interview with Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto, astronaut Buzz Aldrin recalled the “magnificent desolation” he and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong witnessed when they landed on the Moon 50 years ago. “And now, Neil [Armstrong] and I are looking at this magnificent desolation.”APOLLO 11 ASTRONAUT MICHAEL COLLINS RECALLS EPIC LAUNCH: 'WE FELT THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON OUR SHOULDERS'He also spoke about the awesome responsibility bestowed upon him and his crewmates. “I prefaced desolate with magnificent, because of humanity's reaching outward and accomplishing something that people thought was impossible,” Aldrin said. APOLLO 11 INSIDERS REMEMBER HISTORY'S MOST FAMOUS SPACE MISSION: 'WE HAD A JOB TO DO AND WE DID IT'“I will forever, no matter what I do, be known as the second man on the moon,” he quipped. We did things together as a team.”The famous astronaut also recalls his famous steps across the surface of the moon and how he was well aware that the world was watching.

Source: Fox News July 16, 2019 16:30 UTC