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  • Profession: Astronaut
  • Type: Hero

Buzz Aldrin (PhD)

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Buzz (Edwin Eugene) Aldrin Jr. is a former American astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. In, 1969, he piloted the first lunar landing and became the second person to walk on its surface after mission commander Neil Armstrong. Buzz inherited his passion for flight from his family where his father was a WWI pilot and commandant at an early Army test pilot school. During the Apollo 11 mission, and apparently unbeknownst to NASA at the time, Aldrin secretly smuggled "bread and wine"
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