Overview
Buzz Aldrin
Known For
Hazardous Journey - The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
July 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are 240,000...
Apollo: The Forgotten Films
Recently discovered footage reveals the secret history of NASA's first...
On Camera: Fifteen Apollo Astronauts and Their Experience of a Lifetime
A collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the...
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using...
Biography
Buzz Aldrin (/ˈɔːldrɪn/; 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. 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.