on January 20, 1930, at Mountainside Hospital in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
He has been accorded numerous honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.Īldrin was born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. Aldrin continues to advocate for space exploration, particularly a human mission to Mars, and developed the Aldrin cycler, a special spacecraft trajectory that makes travel to Mars more efficient in terms of time and propellant. His autobiographies Return to Earth (1973) and Magnificent Desolation (2009) recount his struggles with clinical depression and alcoholism in the years after leaving NASA. He retired from the Air Force in 1972, after 21 years of service. Kennedy "of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" before the end of the decade.Īfter leaving NASA in 1971, Aldrin became Commandant of the U.S. victory in the Space Race by fulfilling a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. A Presbyterian elder, Aldrin became the first person to hold a religious ceremony on the Moon when he privately took communion. Three years later, Aldrin set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on J( UTC), nineteen minutes after Armstrong first touched the surface, while command module pilot Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit. His first space flight was in 1966 on Gemini 12, during which he spent over five hours on extravehicular activity.
His doctoral thesis, Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous, earned him the nickname "Dr. He flew 66 combat missions and shot down two MiG-15 aircraft.Īfter earning a Doctor of Science degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Aldrin was selected as a member of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a doctoral degree. He was commissioned into the United States Air Force and served as a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War. He was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission and became the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong.īorn in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Aldrin graduated third in the class of 1951 from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a degree in mechanical engineering. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. Buzz Aldrin ( / ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ n/ born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
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