I really hope the New York Times fact checkers did their job on this one*. This has to be true: Buzz Aldrin is to appear in a rap video with Snoop Dogg.

Astronaut and Moon-walker Aldrin told the Times, “I just did a rap session with Snoop Dogg and a rap composition called ‘Rocket Experience’. It’s going to be an online video.

“… I relate. It’s not singing, it’s rapping.”

Hopefully this rap, when released, will prove good enough to add to our Moon Songs Hall of Fame. As one commenter on the BoingBoing website so eloquently puts it: “Snoop D-O-double-G up in the hizzle with Bizzle Adrizzle, fo’ shizzle.”

Another highlight from the brilliant interview:

NYT: Was your mother’s maiden name really Marion Moon?

BA: Yes. I didn’t feel NASA needed to know that. Somebody would think I was trying to get favoured treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that’s a joke.

• And I’m suspicious, as the piece states “A version of this article appeared in print on June 21, 2009.”