Buzz aldrin

We speak to Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin about his life, the legacy of the moonlandings and humanity's future in space.

39 years ago, on July 21st 1969, 2:56 AM (GMT), Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. This article covers which Speedmasters have set 'foot' on the Moon.

Photograph courtesy of Buzz Aldrin.Even in the company of other astronauts, Buzz Aldrin is still the hippest guy in the room. At the 2010 Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which took place earlier this month at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Buzz was the Jack Nicholson to NASA’s Oscars. He exuded an effortless cool just by smiling at the crowd, and all eyes were on him even when he wasn’t meant to be the center of attention. The ceremony’s host, Jon Cryer (because when you…

Buzz Aldrin

From 1969, Face the Nation talks to Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins about their lunar landing

”That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Whether you think that statement makes no sense or believe he was misheard or misquoted, no one can deny the iconography now associated with Neil Armstrong's famous first words as he stepped foot on the moon the night of July 20, 1969.

He was a war-hero fighter pilot. He was an MIT rocket scientist. He was a lot of impressive things, and then Buzz Aldrin went to the moon, which is maybe all you know about one of the most famous men on earth—a guy who's been frozen, like a footprint in lunar dust, in America's mind for forty-five years now. But the thing about Buzz is that he still wants way more than the moon