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Buzz Aldrin
1930-present
Who Is Buzz Aldrin?
Buzz Aldrin's father, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was the one who originally encouraged his interest in flight.
Aldrin became a fighter pilot and flew in the Korean War. In 1963, he was selected by NASA for the next Gemini mission. In 1969, Aldrin, along with Neil Armstrong, made history when they walked on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission.
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Aldrin later worked to develop space-faring technology and became an author, writing several sci-fi novels, children's books and memoirs including Return to Earth (1973), Magnificent Desolation (2009) and No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon (2016).
Early Life
Famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin was born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
on January 20, 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey. He earned his nickname, "Buzz," as a child when his little sister mispronounced the word "brother" as "buzzer. His family shortened the nickname to "