Happy Birthday to Buzz Aldrin
Jan 20, 2026 • Sidrah Gohar • VIP / Birthday Wishes
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Buzz Aldrin (; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American engineer and a former astronaut and fighter pilot.
Aldrin made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and as the Apollo Lunar Module pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Aldrin graduated third in the class of 1951 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, with a degree in mechanical engineering.
He was commissioned into the United States Air Force, and served as a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War.
He flew 66 combat missions and shot down two MiG-15 aircraft. After earning a Sc.D.
degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aldrin was selected as a member of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a doctoral degree.