Buzz Aldrin was born on 20 January 1930 in Mountainside Medical Center. An American astronaut and engineer, Aldrin was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 11, and in July 1969 he became the second person to walk on the Moon, shortly after Neil Armstrong. A West Point graduate and Korean War fighter pilot, he earned a doctorate at MIT with a thesis on orbital rendezvous techniques, which were vital for the Apollo missions. He had earlier flown on Gemini 12 and made a record spacewalk. After retiring from NASA he struggled with depression and alcoholism, then became an advocate for space exploration and for a future human mission to Mars.
Before and after
- 1930Founding of KFC
- c. 1930sComfort woman
- from 1930 to 1936Dust Bowl
- 1930Population transfer in the Soviet Union
- 20 January 1930Birth of Buzz Aldrin
- 20 January 1930Founding of Bank for International Settlements
- 23 January 1930Birth of Derek Walcott
- 18 February 1930Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
- 8 March 1930Death of William Howard Taft
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