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1 day ago · Buzz Aldrin (/ ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ n /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
Jun 14, 2024 · Buzz Aldrin (born January 20, 1930, Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American astronaut who was the second person to set foot on the Moon. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York (1951), Aldrin became an air force pilot.
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5 days ago · Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight in which astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the culmination of the Apollo program and a massive national commitment by the United States to beat the Soviet Union in putting people on the Moon.
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Jun 8, 2024 · Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11) NASA. Buzz Aldrin, right, along with his crewmates Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, before their mission to the Moon. On 21 July 1969, former fighter pilot Edwin...
Jun 8, 2024 · Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11) On 21 July 1969, former fighter pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin left his lunar landing craft and became the second person to step on the surface of the Moon....
1 day ago · Lovell (second from left) and Buzz Aldrin (third from left) arrive aboard the recovery vessel, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp, after the Gemini 12 flight. The goals of Gemini 12, the final Gemini mission, were ill-defined at first. "Essentially Gemini 12 didn't have a mission", Lovell later recalled.
Jun 14, 2024 · Opinion: Buzz Aldrin Pays Tribute To Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders. Buzz Aldrin June 14, 2024. Credit: Bill Anders/NASA. Life is strange—never more than in the friends you make...
