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Edwin Eugene "Gene" Aldrin Sr. (12 April 1896 – 28 December 1974) was an aviator and officer in the United States Army during World War I and World War II. He was assistant commandant of the Army's first test pilot school at McCook Field , Ohio , from 1919 to 1922, and founded the engineering school there that later became the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Wright-Patterson AFB .
Buzz Aldrin (/ ˈɔːldrɪn /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; (January 20, 1930 - October 18, 2024) was an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. He was the second person to walk on the Moon after ...
Aldrin was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, to Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr., a career military man, and his wife Marion (née Moon). He is of Scottish, Swedish, and German ancestry. After graduating from Montclair High School in 1946, Aldrin turned down a full scholarship offer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and went to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York ...
Jul 7, 2011 · The flag was wrapped in paper, which was inscribed, “Felicitations to Worcester – Hometown of Maj. Aldrin.” That same year, 1930, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. was born, the third child and only boy of Edwin Sr. and his wife Marion. (He was nicknamed Buzz when one of his sisters kept pronouncing the word “brother” as “buzzer.”
Jan 21, 2023 · Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, who became the second person to ever set foot on the moon in 1969, following crewmate Neil Armstrong, married his “longtime love” on his 93rd birthday on Friday.
Nov 12, 2019 · Famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin was born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. on January 20, 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey. ... He married his third wife, Lois Driggs Cannon, on Valentine's Day in 1988. They ...
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Apr 13, 2022 · Marion Gaddys Aldrin formerly Moon. Born 16 Nov 1903 in Illinois, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Faye Arnold Moon and Jessie Elizabeth (Ross) Moon. Sister of Robert Bruce Moon. Wife of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. — married 22 Mar 1924 in Manila, Metropolitan Manila, Philippines. Mother of Fay Ann Aldrin and Buzz Aldrin Jr.
