![]() ![]() Since then, there have been reports that Aldrin also claimed to have seen aliens on the journey to the lunar surface but this isn't true, Live Science previously reported. According to the Science and Media Museum, the event was watched by an estimated 650 million people on television and Aldrin would describe the moon as "magnificent desolation". Armstrong set foot on the moon first, followed by Aldrin 19 minutes later. This mission made history, touching down with just 30 seconds' worth of fuel left in the landing tank and overshooting the intended location by four miles, according to. ![]() He was the lunar module pilot, Armstrong was commander and Michael Collins was the command module pilot, according to NASA. (Image credit: Getty)Īlthough Apollo 8 didn't see him venture into space, Aldrin's time would come with Apollo 11 which launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969. The Apollo 11 crew (left to right): Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. Aldrin became part of the back-up crew for Apollo 8, according to NASA, having been assigned as the command module pilot, and he worked with commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Fred W Haise Jr. ![]() It was a three-person spacecraft as opposed to the two-person Gemini project and its primary aim was to land astronauts on the moon. NASA also set up the Apollo space program. According to NASA’s Space Science Data and Coordinated Archive, underwater training paved the way for Aldrin to perform three successful spacewalks, Extra-Vehicular Activities that saw him spend more than five-and-a-half hours outside a spacecraft. Along with fellow astronaut Jim Lovell, he'd been assigned to the tenth and final flight of the Gemini series, Gemini 12, which launched on Nov. ![]() In 1966, Environmental Research Associates paid McDonogh - a private military boys' school in Maryland - $10 an hour to rent its pool and Aldrin plunged in for underwater exercises, according to McDonogh. Becoming known as Dr Rendezvous, Aldrin also pioneered underwater training techniques to simulate spacewalking which would prepare astronauts to work in a weightlessness environment, according to NASA. To aid such a mission, Aldrin built on the knowledge gained during his thesis and worked on docking and rendezvous techniques for spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit. That year, president John F Kennedy announced his intention to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth, according to NASA. It saw both sides embroiled in a competition to demonstrate their respective technological might and, in 1961, the USSR stole a march yet again when Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space.īuzz Aldrin embarked on three spacewalks during the Gemini 12 spaceflight on November 12, 13 totaling 5½ hours. In that year, the president Dwight D Eisenhower's press secretary James Hagerty announced America's intention to launch a science satellite and this spurred the Soviets into action, according to NASA History Division - the USSR's Sputnik 1 satellite was sent into space just two years later, according to. Since 1955, the United States and the Soviet Union had been engaged in a space race. It was the second time he had applied, having been inspired by his friend, Gemini and Apollo astronaut Ed White, Aldrin stated in a tweet in March 2020. Shortly after graduating four years later, having written a 311-page thesis called Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous, according to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, he was selected by NASA to become an astronaut. ![]()
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