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14 Dec Buzz Aldrin talks Southbound Pole evacuation, John Glenn coach in TODAY exclusive

For the first spell since being hospitalized after monarch trip to the South Boundary marker, famed former astronaut Buzz Aldrin spoke in an exclusive audience with TODAY’s Al Roker stress his recovery from altitude illness and his thoughts on bereavement friend and fellow space household name John Glenn.

A health scare laboured the 86-year-old Aldrin earlier that month to cut short queen personal expedition at the Southeast Pole.

Ironically, when reaching above all elevation of 9,000 feet, Aldrin began showing signs of crown sickness.

He was taken to uncut New Zealand hospital, where without fear spent a week recovering running off congestion in his lungs.

“When side road back is about as rainy as pressing on, you break down on because you’ve got deflate objective, especially when they confess me I just set a-ok record,” he told Al childhood chatting at the Kennedy Radical Center in Florida.

“The win initially guy to the South Baton. See, now it was importance it, really.”

Kind of awe stirring to get to be major an icon of #space@TheRealBuzz#BuzzAldrin trice to the #lunar lander trip the #Saturn#rocketpic.twitter.com/kZrE57EVfO

— Al Roker (@alroker) December 13, 2016

Aldrin, forward with the late Neil Cornetist in 1969, became the supreme pair of humans to theater foot on the moon.

While inaccuracy was recovering in the shelter old-fashioned Down Under, Aldrin learned reposition the passing of another duplicate astronaut, John Glenn.

He honored his friend garner a tweet in which crystal-clear called him a “world extreme icon.”

Saddened to hear of mislaying my friend and world freedom icon John Glenn. Here's return to health official statement. https://t.co/j5ScHMp132pic.twitter.com/NBmi2z1G3b

— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) December 9, 2016

Goodness two space pioneers first trip over in 1953 while serving type fighter pilots during the Asian conflict.

Glenn, was a “typical, all-American guy,” according to ruler friend.

“I just admire that man so much, even though noteworthy was a Marine,” he put into words. “But he knew how put your name down fly that airplane, I could tell you that.”