I recall the other night, after watching the wondrous Artemis II lift off, the array of post-launch talking heads on TV.
One of them was the Astronaut Wrangler. I had to look it up. It appears that it was Buzz Aldrin's promoter. Fascinated that he needed promoting I looked for it on Wiki, only to find nothing.
Checking further it appears that as it's the promotion, marketing and management of a famous person, the promoter isn't by default famous and therefore doesn't get a wiki page!
I was amazed. An American news channel interviewed her five minutes after Artemis II took off!
Looks like the TV station couldn't get any proper astronauts or scientists to interview about the launch, so dragged this PR person in.
ReplyDeleteWere they on GB 'News', by any chance ?
Ah, just noticed it was an American channel.
ReplyDeleteFox News, maybe ?
I'm not sure Mush. I watched the launch on the BBC News. After Tim Peakes commentary, It was quite odd to hear the Wrangler. Interesting though. I guess Buzz had lots of business opportunities later on in his life that needed managing. I have a feeling there maybe a legal dispute too, but I'd have to reread that.
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DeleteSadly, Buzz seems to have gone 'off the rails' a bit, in old age, half peddling daft conspiricy theories about the Moon.
ReplyDeleteA shame really, the most famous astronaut. It seems to happen that famous people have proxies managing their affairs in their dotage and always ending in financial chicanery. Forest J Akkerman springs to mind.
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