Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin is an American astronaut, fighter pilot and aeronautical engineer. He made three spacewalks as pilot of Gemini 12 in 1966. In July 1969 he was lunar module pilot of Apollo 11 and became the second person to walk on the Moon, after commander Neil Armstrong, while Michael Collins stayed in lunar orbit. Aldrin has a doctorate in astronautics from MIT. With the deaths of Armstrong in 2012 and Collins in 2021, he is the last living member of the Apollo 11 crew.

Born: 20 January 1930
Country: United States
Flights: 2: Gemini 12 (1966), Apollo 11 (1969)
Time in space: 12 days 1 hours

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

16 July 1969

Apollo 11
- Apollo spacecraft, Saturn V
- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
Apollo 11 was NASA's first attempt to land people on the Moon, and it worked. The Saturn V that launched it, the lunar module that landed and the command module that came home were the full stack of the Apollo programme, flown by a crew of three.
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