slug: "latbs/buzz-aldrin"
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title: "Aldrin, Buzz"
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pageCreated: "2025-04-15"
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p.centre(style="font-family: var(--sans-serif)"): small This article is about the American astronaut. For the mythological figure, see #[i: u Aldrin (Selenean civic religion)].
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p “Perhaps, if i had it to do over again, i would not choose to celebrate communion. Although it was a deeply meaningful experience for me, it was a Christian sacrament, and we had come to the moon in the name of all mankind – be they Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, agnostics, or atheists. But at the time i could think of no better way to acknowledge the enormity of the Apollo 11 experience than by giving thanks to God.”
footer Buzz Aldrin, 2009
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.infobox-head Edwin Eugene Aldrin jr
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b Born:
| 20 January 1930; Glen Ridge, United States, #[a.geography(href="/latbs/earth") Earth]
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b Died:
| 7 August 2024; Armstrong–Gagarin Peace Station, Selene (age 94)
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b Morphology:
| Baseline #[a.sapiens(href="/latbs/humans") human], male
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b Education:
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (D.Sc.)
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b Issue:
| 3
p #[b Eugene Edwin Aldrin junior] (20 January 1930–7 August 2024), known universally as #[b Buzz Aldrin], was an American astronaut, engineer, and pastor, best known as the second person to ever walk on the Selenean surface.
p Top of his class in the U.S.’s military academy, Buzz first proved his mettle as a fighter pilot in the Korean War before being selected for Nasa’s élite #[i Gemini] programme, performing several spacewalks on its final mission. He was subsequently chosen for the all-veteran crew of #[i Apollo 11], the apex of the first Space Race; on that fateful day in 1969, he and Neil Armstrong left humanity’s first bootprints on Earth’s moon.
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