Buzz Aldrin was born on January 20, 1930 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Buzz graduated in 1951 from West Point. He also got a B.S. degree too. He was a Second Lieutenant and worked as jet pilot under the U.S during the Korean War. After the war, he was an aerial gunnery instructor at Nellis Air Force Base at southern Nevada. Then later on he became an aide at the U.S Air Force Academy. He got his D.S. degree in Astronautics from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After MIT, he went back to the Air Force and got assigned to the Gemini Target Office of the Air Force Space Systems Division in Los Angeles. Later he went to the Edwards Air Force Base at the U.S Air Force Test Pilot School. In October 1693, he was selected as a part of the third groups of NASA astronauts. Aldrin always wanted to be at the time when he could be the first person on the moon. Aldrin retired after twenty-one years of work in March 1972 and went back to the Air Force. He also wrote an autobiography about the struggles of his NASA career from the past few years. His life improved after marrying Lois Aldrin. Now in his retiring life he is still doing space exploration and also made a very unique computer game called “Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space”.

Aldrin got a crater named after him called” The Aldrin Crater”. He won an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1967. President Bush told Aldrin to make an appointment for Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry in 2001.  Variety, the children charity, gave Aldrin a Humanitarian Award in 2003.  He has been in many television shows and on many films too. Aldrin is in the Astronauts Hall of Fame. He made a voiced animation of a character in “The Simpson”. The episode was when he and Homer Simpson went into space. In Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear was named after him. So this is the life of Buzz Aldrin so far.