Mr Aldrin said he remembers the “magnificent desolation” of the Moon as he recalled his Apollo 11 voyage with co-pilots Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins. During that journey he became only the second-ever human to walk on the moon. He followed Mr Armstrong down the ladder and recalled how he felt sure-footed in the one-sixth gravity around him.
However, he confessed that such was the incredible mission they were carrying out, all three of them felt disconnected from the occasion back on Earth.
As they took their first steps on the Moon, they were unaware how much the mission had captured the imagination of the planet.
Hundreds of millions of people tuned in to watch event unfold.
Mr Aldrin said: “I sometimes think the three of us missed ‘the big event’.
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“While we were out there on the moon, the world was growing closer together, right here.”
Mr Aldrin has been reflecting on the event while talking at a 50th anniversary gala at the Ronald Reagan Library, outside Los Angeles.
He said: “We did not know the instant of leaving the ground.
“We only knew it from the instruments and voice communications which confirmed liftoff.
“We sort of looked at each other and thought, ‘We must be on our way.'”
He also spoke of the heart-wrenching moment, he and his team were left concerned they may have run out of fuel.
The 89-year-old added: “We knew we were continuing to burn fuel. We knew what we had, then we heard ’30 seconds left.’
“If we ran out of fuel, we knew it would be a hard landing. We saw the shadow cast in front of us. That was new, not something we saw in the simulator.
“I saw dust creating a haze, not particles, but a haze that went out, dust the engine was picking up.”
Hours after successfully landing, Mr Armstrong made history with his now immortal quote “that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.