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Buzz Aldrin
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Curators' Team
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. was born on Jan 20, 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey. He received the nickname Buzz. He earned a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, 1951) and a Sc. D. from MIT (1963).
He served in the U.S. Air Force as a fighter pilot (Korean War) and later became a test pilot.
He was selected as an astronaut in 1963 and was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11; the second person to…
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1969
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2026
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2026
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1969
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. was born on Jan 20, 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey. He received the nickname Buzz. He earned a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, 1951) and a Sc. D. from MIT (1963).
He served in the U.S. Air Force as a fighter pilot (Korean War) and later became a test pilot.
He was selected as an astronaut in 1963 and was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11; the second person to walk on the Moon (July 20, 1969).
After NASA, he retired in…