SuitabookReaching for the Moon
Buzz Aldrin
- Reading
- Read together and pause at the childhood and Moon-landing milestones. Invite the reader to notice what effort and teamwork contribute, without assuming every goal is possible for everyone.
- Themes
- Ambition and achievement: Aldrin presents his route to becoming an astronaut as a journey beginning in childhood and involving years of effort before the Moon landing. The book presents this favourably.
- Personal story and team achievement: Aldrin describes his own readiness to be part of the team that achieved the first Moon landing. The personal perspective places an individual’s story alongside a collective milestone, without making the achievement solely individual.
- Worth knowing
- Aldrin describes the Moon landing as hard to believe even as he took his first step there; this moment may invite a conversation about the feelings surrounding a remarkable achievement.