Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is Being Emergency Evacuated From the South Pole (businessinsider.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday December 1, 2016 @03:25AM from the what's-happening dept.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Thursday morning that it will provide a "humanitarian medical evacuation flight" from the South Pole for an "ailing" Buzz Aldrin. BusinessInsider adds: Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon, joining Neil Armstrong in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module in July 1969. He has since become an author and advocate for crewed missions to Mars. He is 86, and no further information is available as to his condition. The NSF's statement said that an NSF plane will fly Aldrin from the Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole to McMurdo Station on the Antarctic coast. At that point ski-equipped LC-130 cargo planes flown by the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard will haul him to New Zealand "as soon as possible."

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Re:You're old by geekmux · 2016-12-01 04:04 · Score: 3, Interesting

This is what happens when there's no serious anti-aging research. Deal with it.
Our fragile planet holds a rather finite amount of resources.
Policies that legalize killers like cigarettes and alcohol and do not support anti-aging research is in fact dealing with it, on a MUCH larger scale.
Death. It's not just part of life. It's policy.