Buzz Aldrin

Cast · Writer

Born

January 20, 1930 · Montclair, New Jersey, USA

Birth name

Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.

Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and, as Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two people to land on the Moon.