Three years later, Aldrin set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on J( UTC), nineteen minutes after Armstrong first touched the surface, while command module pilot Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit. His first space flight was in 1966 on Gemini 12, during which he spent over five hours on extravehicular activity.

His doctoral thesis, Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous, earned him the nickname 'Dr. He flew 66 combat missions and shot down two MiG-15 aircraft.Īfter earning a Doctor of Science degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aldrin was selected as a member of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a doctoral degree. He was commissioned into the United States Air Force and served as a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War. As the 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.īorn in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Aldrin graduated third in the class of 1951 from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a degree in mechanical engineering. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission.

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