Buzz Aldrin

By evanyounger

  • Birth

    Birth
    Buzz Aldrin was born at the brink of the the Great Depression in 1930.

  • Childhood

    Childhood
    In highschool he played football and his dad made him give in up for acedemics

  • Military Career

    Military Career
    Aldrin's father felt his son should continue on to multi-engine flight school so that he could eventually take charge of his own flight crew, but Buzz wanted to become a fighter pilot. His father relented to his son's wishes, and after a summer of hitching around Europe on military planes, Buzz officially entered the United States Air Force in 1951. He again scored near the top of his class in flight school, and began fighter training later that year.

  • War time

    War time
    Buzz server in the war for three years flying an f-100

  • Gemini 12

    It launched from Cape Kennedy. He was with Jim Lovell.
    http://buzzaldrin.com/the-man/space-missions/

  • 2nd man on the moon

    2nd man on the moon
    Neil Armstrong was the first and Buzz was the second.