Tie-Dyed Brain Rays

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Catching A Buzz

...was impossible at the recent 2007 International Space Development Conference in Dallas, although I attended with that specific goal in mind. One of my life-long heroes, Buzz Aldrin, was a speaker at the conference and I had naively hoped to take about twelve seconds of the good doctor's time to hand him a CD of my radio interview with him (see previous post) and perhaps get a snapshot of the two of us shaking hands. Alas, it was not to be. Nor was I the only one similarly disappointed. One young man apparently attended the conference in the vain hope that he might be able to add Dr. Aldrin's autograph to a large model rocket which was already covered with the names of astronauts and rocket scientists.