Watch Live: Buzz Aldrin Talks About How to Live on Mars

In a featured session at SXSW on Tuesday, Buzz Aldrin will take the stage for a conversation with Jeffrey Kluger, TIME editor-at-large and co-author of Apollo 13, to discuss his plans for creating a permanent human settlement on Mars, why he chose virtual reality as a medium to educate audiences, and the importance of capturing his hologram and legacy for future generations. Readers can watch the livestream above starting at 4:30 p.m. E.T. Buzz Aldrin was a Martian long before The Martian. Ever since becoming the second man to set foot on the lunar surface in 1969, Aldrin has been thinking hard about how humanity could get to the Red Planet. He is now unveiling his plan in a virtual reality experience at the South by Southwest festival in Austin. Aldrin’s VR journey was produced by Los Angeles-based 8i, and beginning on March 17, TIME and LIFE VR will distribute it across multiple VR platforms, including Steam and Viveport for the HTC Vive, and to Oculus Rift soon thereafter. No matter how you view it, Aldrin’s plan is equal parts smart and audacious. America has been making its shambolic way to Mars for decades now. At the time of the first moon landing, the prediction was that we could reach the Red Planet as early as 1980. Many years — and many postponements — later, the best prediction is sometime in the 2030s. No matter when NASA hopes to go, Aldrin turns thumbs down on most of the plans it has floated. The problem is, they’re largely built...
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