So Armstrong took matters into his own hands — switching off their landing computer and searching for a landing spot manually while Aldrin went ... As a fighter pilot in the Korean War, you ...

Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the ... A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the engineer served as a fighter pilot in the Korean War before joining NASA in 1963.

The 11 minutes of powered descent to the lunar surface was Buzz Aldrin's most memorable moment in the lunar module. Damian Dovarganes / AP Images Buzz Aldrin, 79, the second man to walk on the ...

Buzz Aldrin wed his ... they divorced in 2012. Aldrin, who was the second person to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong, served as the Lunar Module Eagle pilot during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.

Just days later, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin would be following mission ... asked if the former fighter pilot with a Ph.D. in astronautics had any questions. At a later lunar workshop, Currie ...

Buzz Aldrin ... July 1969 that Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong ventured to the Moon as part of NASA's Apollo 11 mission. Collins — the mission's command module pilot — remained ...

On July 21, 1969, humans walked on the moon for the first time ever. The history-making feat was accomplished by American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. However, this was not the only ...