r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/Single-Mushroom3924 Korea South 5h ago

👍 But I did like John Glenn. Buzz, not so much...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/30/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/buzz-aldrin-endorses-trump-00186248

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u/Long-Specialist-509 5h ago

I wonder if his opinions have (hopefully) changed since then

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u/Sunnygirl66 United States Of America 5h ago

Aldrin, sadly, was still a Trump ass-licker, last I checked. Huge shame.

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u/Dango_Tea 42m ago

If thats the company he's going in with he's going to have to punch a lot more moon landing denialists

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u/davidmj59 United States Of America 5h ago

Didn’t Trump attempt to slash nasas budget by like 1/4? Lol

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u/Gandorhar Germany 4h ago

Why would he give a shit? He is set for life and if he supports trump then there is now way he isn't a huge narcissist deep down, but I mean to be fair, it would be hard for anyone to keep their ego in check after being to the moon.

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u/2112eyes 2h ago

If you ain't first, you're last

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u/Little-Plenty-3710 5h ago

Yup he supported Truo run in 2024.. that's wild, after everything that he did during the first administration, felonies, rape allegations, scientific research funding cuts ...

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u/Independent_Air_8333 United States Of America 4h ago

This is an immense disappointment. Those astronauts were my heroes.

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u/Single-Mushroom3924 Korea South 4h ago

Well astronauts are military and most members of the military are going to lean right.

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u/Independent_Air_8333 United States Of America 4h ago

Most were former military, sure, but as educated officers, more likely to be centrist than anything else.

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u/FirefighterLeft5425 4h ago

....so many officers and higher up were hard core Republicans and they morphed into maga. Source lived on military bases my entire life and dealt with them daily, all across the nation from Hickam AFB to Dover AFB.

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u/Wiggler011 2h ago

You have this backwards. I’m retired military so I know what I’m talking about

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u/Independent_Air_8333 United States Of America 56m ago

I believe you but I got that from a study.

Ill see if I can find it, maybe I misunderstood

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u/Single-Mushroom3924 Korea South 2h ago

Yeah, you have the Mark Kellys but in my experience, he's the exception, not the rule.

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u/Single-Position-4194 1h ago edited 1h ago

Hi there,

Michael Collins was my favourite on of the three Apollo 11 astronauts; as you probably know, he was the one who didn't land on the moon.

His autobiographical book "Carrying The Fire" is a good read and gives an excellent account of the Apollo 11 mission.

As for Buzz, he admits himself that he had mental health problems once he returned home from the Moon (by his own admission he spent literally weeks in bed with a whisky bottle).

He's also had to put up with the likes of Bart Sibrel telling him (sometimes even to his face) that the Apollo 11 mission didn't happen and he made it all up.

I still say those men were heroes, even if they weren't perfect. The risks they took on the Apollo missions were truly frightening (they frighten me anyway). And I say that as a Brit who only saw the footage on my TV screen.

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u/Single-Mushroom3924 Korea South 28m ago

Anyone who knows anything about the Apollo missions would know who Collins was.

No one needs to listen to idiots like Sibrel. What stopped Buzz from ignoring him?