Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin was the second human to walk on the moon. On July 20th, 1969, he followed Neil Armstrong onto the surface while a third american astronaut, Micheal Collins, remained in orbit overhead. Before his career with Nasa Buzz used to fly fighter jets in the Korean war,and then earned

a doctorate in astronautics from the massachusetts Institution of technology (MIT) before joining the NASA astronaut corps in October of1963. He flew on the GEMINI 12 mission( launched 11th November 1966) and then was chosen as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 11. The success of Apollo 11 made Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins international heroes.