To his right, the desert looked as if it could have been used as a test site for a moon walk.
I got to stay up past my bedtime that night and see Armstrong and Aldrin take that first moon walk.
But the moon walk was taking place at about deadline time.
He was simulating a moon walk on a rocky lava bed near Bend, Oregon.
Astronauts were better prepared for a moon walk than we are for a beach walk.
"It's Everest, the Lost Continent, the original moon walk, rolled into one."
A moon walk is expected within a decade.
On their moon walk they missed the major objective of their mission, Cone Crater, by 20 feet.
NASA and Michael Jackson now have more in common than the moon walk.
"By an hour and a half of the moon walk they were bored," Mailer writes.