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Article: INTERVIEW - BUZZ ALDRIN: Still buzzing.
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- The Engineer
- Article date:
- July 25, 2005
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It is 36 years since Buzz Aldrin went to the Moon but the first man in space with an engineering PhD continues to work tirelessly for manned space travel. Julia Pierce reports
On 20 July 1969 Edward Eugene Aldrin Junior - otherwise known as 'Buzz' - set foot on the Moon. Neil Armstrong may have been one step ahead on exiting the flight module, but since the crew's return to Earth it is Aldrin who has become the father of inter-planetary flight through his tireless promotion of space exploration.
Most of NASA's astronauts from the golden era of the 1960s and early 1970s have now slipped into quiet retirement. But Aldrin, subject of the most ...