Brigitte and I were surprised to receive this unusual card from Lois and Buzz Aldrin On the back of the card we found the indication of their website with photos and an 'Pioneer story' that is more than unusual

from time to time people send us greetings, sometimes with Infos or pictures ... this amusing card came in early 2000 when Phnebk f the Wrld was still very much a 'Baby' but who are these amusing people from Los Angeles ?

the Card brought luck ...

........ do you remember ?

July 20, I969   
 3 very adventurous young people
open a new frontier ....
a frontier that is the base of many of today's Telecommunication Infrastructures

at this time the World was just getting ready,
for International Direct Dialing
country codes had already been issued
large cites were connected through cupper cables
but what about all thoses smaller places around the World
for which we now use Sattelites ???

who made it possible to use them ?

Apollo II  taking off to the Moon

the crew of the Apollo II would you have had the courage to mount in this fuse ?

When you have some time to concentrate
read this articles inside
Buzz Aldrin's unusual
Website
                                     from the Moon to the Millenum ...
Buzz Aldrin:
When I look up at the moon,
I sometimes wonder, how did we manage to get there ? .....

When President Kennedy
first made the Comitment in I96I to land a man on the moon
before the end of the decade,
we had little more than a dream,
a dream that caut fire ......

Buzz Aldrin photo by Neil Armstrong
and recently Commander Aldrin came to Paris .... on the photo you see Buzz Aldrin, Buzz Aldrin in a little different outfit and Ben Solms, editor of the Phnebk f the Wrld more pictures click here	Buzz Aldrin and Ben Solms photo by Ana Maria Indio da Costa

picture with a cartoon from La Poste, the French Post Office


at the same time la Poste
hat put on sale the centurial stamp collection
'Le siècle au fil du timbre'
all French post offices were decorated with Mr Aldrins picture .....
I had noticed them in the Post office

Isabelle Martinot,
one of the energic Post Agents from the Paris Chatelet Post office
(Cybercafe de Paris  is extremly lucky to be located right next to this very charming Post Office !)
didn't want to beleive when I told her that

that the man on the stamp
was really someone alive
someone that even came to PARIS from time to time


there he is ...
buzzaldrin.cm
and you can visit his website
what a Pioneer story.....



the whole stamp sheet including the stamp

'voyager sur la Lune pour 3 Francs'
(travel to the Moon for 3 Francs)

indeed Commander Aldrin was surprised by this 'great bargain'

view on the Moon from Apollow II




poster with
view on the Moon from the Golden Gate


more on Human Spaceflights



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and what about
planet Mars ?