Buzz Aldrin Parents: Who Are Buzz Aldrin Parents?

Buzz Aldrin was born to his parents, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. and Marion Aldrin (née Moon).

Marion Aldrin

Born in 1903, Aldrin’s mother, Marion, had reportedly killed herself in 1968, shortly before Aldrin’s lunar flight. Her death was one of the incidents that made him fall into depression.

Eugene Aldrin Sr.

Born in 1896, Edwin was an Army aviator during World War I and World War II. He served as assistant commandant of the Army’s test pilot school at McCook Field, Ohio.

He quit the Army in 1928 and began working in Standard Oil.

Edwin passed away in December 1974.

Who Is Buzz Aldrin?

Buzz Aldrin is a former astronaut, trained engineer and fighter pilot known for being the second person to reach the moon with Neil Armstrong.

Born on January 20, 1930, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Aldrin walked on the space three times as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission and as the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.

Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy, Aldrin worked as a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War, flying 66 combat missions and blowing off two MiG-15 aircraft.

Aldrin became the first astronaut with a doctoral degree when he bagged his PhD in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After setting foot on the moon, Aldrin had held a religious ceremony on the Moon and had taken communion on his own.

Aldrin left NASA in 1971, and was made Commandant of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, where he served for 21 years.

The space hero has won numerous awards and honours, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.

In 1982, Aldrin was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame; in 1993, he was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame; in 2000, the National Aviation Hall of Fame; and in 2008, the New Jersey Hall of Fame.