"Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk ๐ถโโ๏ธ on the moon. I am
the first man to piss his pants ๐on the moon ๐"
Buzz Aldrin was born on January 20, 1930 in Glen Ridge, NJ. ๐ถ
In 1963, he was selected by NASA and soon became popular as โDr.
Rendezvous.โ for the docking and rendezvous techniques he devised for
spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit.
On July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo
11 moonwalk, ๐ฑโ๐ becoming the first two humans to set foot on the
moon.
Asteroids โ6470 Aldrinโ and the โAldrin Craterโ on the moon are named
after this brilliant astronaut. ๐
Since retiring from NASA and the U.S. Air Force, Col. Aldrin is a
Global Statesman for Space and has remained a tireless advocate ๐ก for
human space exploration.