Posted on 12/01/2016 9:11:15 AM PST by Enlightened1
American astronaut Buzz Aldrin has been medically evacuated from the South Pole, according to the National Science Foundation and a private tourism group.
Aldrin, 86, was visiting Antarctica when "his condition deteriorated," according to White Desert, which organizes luxury tourism trips to the icy continent. The group said Aldrin was evacuated on the first available flight out of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to the McMurdo Station on the Antarctic coast under the care of a doctor with the U.S. Antarctic Program.
He is in stable condition, White Desert said.
The National Science Foundation provided the flight for Aldrin, who it described as an "ailing visitor." Aldrin will be flown to New Zealand next, the NSF said.
Earlier in the week, the legendary astronaut posted photos of himself preparing for his trip to Antarctica.
"South Pole here I come!" he captioned one photo on Twitter on Tuesday. He was slated to be in the South Pole through Dec. 12, according to his website.
Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong when their two-man crew of Apollo 11 made a lunar landing in 1969.
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“I don’t know about that but a relative saw him at MIT a couple of years ago and she said he was rude and arrogant.”
That’s what “she” said.
Prayers to you mr.lightyear.
which organizes luxury tourism trips to the icy continent.....How does that happen? 24 hour frozen slushies?
He probably just got airsickness.
That could be said of anyone, not just an 86-year-old. I recall the story of a female physician stationed at the South Pole who had to be rescued after she discovered and self-treated her breast cancer until a plane could be sent in to rescue her. She was only 47 years old.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/23/obit.jerri.nielsen/index.html?eref=ib_us
Pictures from his Twitter feed from 11/29 show Buzz Aldrin to be in pretty good shape and in apparent good health.
Well after going to your house when he was looking for intelligent life and not finding any he went to the south pole
Yes, that was him, and the guy was being an ass, the video shows the guy deserved fully to be punched out.
I would hesitate to classify him as rude and arrogant, here’s why: I had the opportunity to meet Chuck Yeager once, and I found him to be rude and arrogant. I said as much on this very forum.
But I have come to regret it, because even though there is no excuse for it, I did not take into account what his life in a fishbowl is like, and...I should have given him that. I do now, but wish I had never said it.
We haven’t walked in his shoes, and we weren’t there to see what took place.
Maybe Aldrin was looking for the Plateau of Leng, or the ruins of the alien civilization H. P. Lovecraft expected to find in the Antarctic.
“We haven’t walked in his shoes, and we weren’t there to see what took place.”
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We haven’t walked in ANYONE”s shoes,but that still does not excuse rudeness.
Aldrin was not dragged kicking and screaming to MIT,he chose to go. He could have stayed home.
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It is Summer down there
Right. It doesn’t excuse it, but it can engender forbearance in specific situations.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with exercising that forbearance in those situations.
You apparently feel differently.
By the way, were you at MIT when he was there?
“At 86 he has no business being there.”
Heck, I’m 62 and I wouldn’t even think about risking my life by trying to survive in Antarctica. That’s for the young folks.
Still spring; summer solstice is not for another 3 weeks or so.
Was it a bucket list tour?
Or was it as a backdrop for a JF (he was in Vietnam, you know) Kerry photo-op?
he was smart enough to go in the summertime down there....
Yep. Buzz Aldrin got a little weird later in life but I sure support that punch.
Buzz definitely has an ego problem. Even back in his days at NASA, he showed that. Instead of being happy to be on the prime crew of Apollo 11, he was furious that he wasn’t the mission commander and was furious that he wouldn’t be first to walk on the moon. Instead of being happy for all the good things that he got to do, he was always all pissy for what he wasn’t getting. He’s been a jerk for a long time.
Is Vietnam veteran John F’n Kerry still down there?
I was at Rocky Mountain National Park. There’s a road in the park that has an 11 mile stretch above 11,500 feet and tops out at 12,500 feet. Spending a day there sure reminded me that I’m not 20 anymore. But I was OK with feeling tired when I saw a couple of people get sick.
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