83rd birthday a road trip to UK for Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin
22 Jan 2013 6:21 AM IST
Buzz Aldrin, the second person ever to walk on the Moon along with Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, has celebrated his 83rd birthday.
Born on 20 January, 1930, Aldrin is marking his birthday on the road with a trip to England.
‘I'm heading home on Monday if the UK weather allows,’ Aldrin wrote in a post on Twitter. Aldrin is well-known for his role on NASA's Apollo 11 mission, which made the first manned Moon landing on 20 July, 1969, when he and Armstrong landed on the lunar surface and performed the first moonwalk, 'Space.com' reported.
Aldrin served as lunar module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission, with Armstrong commanding the mission. Armstrong died at age 82 last year.
Aldrin is a retired colonel in the US Air Force and flew combat missions in Korea before joining NASA's astronaut corps in 1963 as one of the space agency's third group of astronauts.
He was born Edwin Aldrin and ‘Buzz’ was originally a nickname.
Born on 20 January, 1930, Aldrin is marking his birthday on the road with a trip to England.
‘I'm heading home on Monday if the UK weather allows,’ Aldrin wrote in a post on Twitter. Aldrin is well-known for his role on NASA's Apollo 11 mission, which made the first manned Moon landing on 20 July, 1969, when he and Armstrong landed on the lunar surface and performed the first moonwalk, 'Space.com' reported.
Aldrin served as lunar module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission, with Armstrong commanding the mission. Armstrong died at age 82 last year.
Aldrin is a retired colonel in the US Air Force and flew combat missions in Korea before joining NASA's astronaut corps in 1963 as one of the space agency's third group of astronauts.
He was born Edwin Aldrin and ‘Buzz’ was originally a nickname.
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