SECOND MAN TO WALK ON MOON - BUZZ ALDRIN - TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. On Tuesday, April 30, he will walk into the University of Arkansas Reynolds Center to deliver the Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture.

Aldrin's presentation will begin at 8 p.m., and it is free and open to the public. In addition, Aldrin will speak to business and engineering students from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Bell Engineering Center.

Aldrin and Neil Armstrong made history and were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but the Gemini and Apollo astronaut doesn't live in the past. He is a futurist and advocate of privatization, space tourism and reusable rockets. He has been called "the man who wants to send you into space" and the "Father of Space Tourism."

Times and Locations:

• 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. - Conversation with Students, Bell Engineering Center, Combs Auditorium, 282
  
  
• 5 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. - Opportunities for media interviews, Bell Engineering Center
  
  
• 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. - Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development Auditorium
  
  
• 9 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. - Reception

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Carolyne Garcia, science and research writer, University Relations, (479) 575-542-46, cgarcia@uark.edu

Mary-Ann Bloss, director of communications, College of Engineering, (479) 575-6016, mab4@engr.uark.edu

Dixie Kline, director of communications, Sam M. Walton College of Business (479) 575-2539, dkline@walton.uark.edu