
Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. (Montclair, January 20, 1930) is an American astronaut and the second man to put down the foot on the moon in the Apollo 11 mission. Educated at the military academy, Aldrin took part in 66 combat missions in the Korean War, before entering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a doctorate in astronautics. He was selected as an astronaut in 1963 in the third group of astronauts selected by U.S. space. His old nickname, Buzz, has since been legalized in 1988 as his first name. In 1963 he was selected by NASA in a shortlist of potential astronauts for the Gemini 9 mission. After the death of the crew of the mission for which Aldrin had been discarded, is selected as part of the next mission (Gemini 9A). After his excellent work on board the pilot was re-9A Aldrin for the last part of the Project Gemini mission, Gemini 12. Aldrin on LunaProprio during the mission orbital Gemini 12 in 1966, made also an EVA (activities outside the spacecraft). Is then selected with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins to be part of the historic Apollo 11 mission (July 1969), which provided the first lunar landing by humans on board. Although the first human to set foot on the moon was Armstrong, Aldrin became similarly famous for his moonlight walks with his companion landed just moments before. After the Apollo 11 mission, Aldrin wait three years before taking leave and returning to a difficult life in the Air Force. In his autobiography, Return to Earth tells of the fight against depression and addressed against alcoholism in the years that followed his career at NASA.
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