The improbable expense report Buzz Aldrin after his trip to the … – Le Point

Buzz Aldrin grounded. Like all employees, astronaut do not forget to write his expense, even when he returns from the moon. The American has published on its Facebook and Twitter accounts, on July 30, more than 45 years after the historic expedition, a former administrative document in which it sought reimbursement of its expenses related to the Apollo 11 mission on Moon.

The scan posted on the social network by the second man to set foot on the moon July 20, 1969 after Neil Arsmtrong displayed spending 33.31 dollars, or about $ 215 aujourd ay, after inflation. This amount corresponds to the astronaut travel, obviously not from Earth to the Moon, but from home until the Space Houston.

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Buzz Aldrin has not only published on the Internet this expense report. Other documents posted astronaut thus reveal that after his trip to the moon was obliged to complete a form for customs, like any other traveler, to indicate the objects brought back from his trip. The American and the Moon reported 22 kilograms of moon rocks, but also dust from natural satellite of the Earth.

“Yes, the crew of Apollo 11 also signed forms to Customs. We reported lunar rocks and samples of lunar dust. Lunar disease to determine, “writes the astronaut as commentary tweet posted on August 2. Forms also fun than informational who, like the travel Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, should undoubtedly go down in history.