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Under DEDICATION:

  In the hopes that this work may in some way contribute to their exploration of space, this is dedicated to the crew members of this country' s present and future manned space programs.
  If only I could join them in their exciting endeavors.

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“In the hopes that this work may in some way contribute to their exploration of space, this is dedicated to the crew members of this country' s present and future manned space programs.

If only I could join them in their exciting endeavors.”

One hell of a postdoc.

Indeed - that dedication is one of my favorite parts of this whole thing

Wow! It is either an intentional sarcasm or Mr.Buzz is a 'know-it-all' like it was portrayed in the First Man movie.

From reading a bunch of biographies from that time, I do get the feeling that buzz was a bit of a loud mouth asshole, but I don’t see Why you think that makes the dedication sarcastic? He wrote this well before he joined nasa

Year of publication of this paper: 1963, as a result of work done in the Gemmy-nee program.

Apollo 7 (first crewed Apollo mission): 1968

Apollo 11 landing on the moon: 1969

I would suggest that Buzz was being quite sincere in this statement, with some hint of confidence that he actually would participate in the Apollo missions. The Gemini and Apollo programs were expected to be dangerous. There was no guarantee that people who participated in Gemini would even be alive for the Moon missions, much less physically capable of participating, much less the best people for the job.

My bad, since he joined NASA in 1963; I assumed he wrote it while trainin.

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