Biography buzz aldrin and neil armstrong

Two young men, both born in , shared the same dream: To soar through the skies.

The one from New Jersey joined the Air Force and the one from Ohio became a U.S. Navy pilot. Both fought in the Korean War. But it wasn’t until they were brought together that they ended up flying higher than they ever dreamed.

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong teamed up to on a historic Apollo 11 lunar mission in And on July 20 of that year, they became the first humans to walk on the moon.

As Armstrong so lyrically captured, that momentous occasion was “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” But no giant leap happens without first finding their space legs.

Aldrin’s graduate school thesis helped him land a job at NASA

Born January 20, , in Montclair, New Jersey, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.

(who legally changed his name to his nickname “Buzz,” which he got from his sister who used to pronounce “brother” as “buzze