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Celebrating 65 Years Of KUOW

00000181-fa79-da89-a38d-fb7f2bb00002KUOW was established in 1952, when Seattle benefactor Dorothy Bullitt donated a radio frequency to the University of Washington.It was a training ground for students to learn about broadcast techniques and technology, on the air for only 8-10 hours each day.We’ve come a long way! Celebrate our anniversary with us all year long. We’ll be throwing events big and small, curating a monthly podcast filled with classic, archived interviews and stories, and giving you lots of ways to be a part of the fun!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ngu000y5do

1989: What it's like to come down from the moon

KUOW | By Ross Reynolds

Published March 27, 2017 at 3:10 PM AKDT

Buzz Aldrin about to step on the moon on July 21, 1969

In this 1989 interview, astronaut Buzz Aldrin frankly describes how his unstructured post-NASA life lead to mental health issues and alcoholism.

He also tells what it was like to walk in low gravity, how concerns about lunar germs that could cause a 'green cheese plague' kept the astronauts in isolation, and the round the world of trip the Apollo 11 astronauts took after their historic mission.

Aldrin was dogged by people who claimed the moon landing never happened. See him punch out a particularly annoying conspiracy theorist Here