There is no way in hell that these dudes are only 40 years old in this video. Also, isn't 40 a little bit old to be getting sent on a mission like that? Buzz is easily in his early-mid 50's.
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John Glenn got shot into orbit in his 70s. That was in the early 2000s or something. Also, people looked much older back then, especially nerds from the countryside (NASA, silicon valley). 30-year olds who look like youths are a late-20th-century-thing. This might be a psychosomatic effect of manchildkind.
Astronauts were mature and achieved fighter pilots, selected for their stable and statesmanly background (in a manner of speaking: turbo-white turbo-tradmales). That takes a while to grow.
"people looked much older back then"... I don't buy that. It wasn't that long ago. I'm 40. No way Buzz is younger than I am in that video.
We are not talking about the same period, perhaps? I was talking about NASA footage from around 1970.