Moon landing: Fuming Buzz Aldrin ‘plotted against Armstrong’ in Apollo 11 sabotage claim

Aldrin would later claim that this satisfied him, it had been the ambiguity, he said, that he found unsettling.

“Buzz may have been okay with the explanation, but his father wasn’t.

“Soon after Buzz told him about it, the elder Aldrin contacted high-placed friends with connections to NASA and the military and tried to have the plan changed.”

More recently, former astronaut Mike Massimino shed some light on the decision.

He explained: “I think that they picked someone humble.

“Actually, I used to think that maybe at first, but I think lately, in the last few years, I’ve changed my thinking of it.