
- Profession: Astronaut
- Type: Hero
Buzz Aldrin (PhD)
Back to all PeopleBuzz (Edwin Eugene) Aldrin Jr. is a former American astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. In 1969, he piloted the first lunar landing and became the second person to walk on the moon's surface after mission commander Neil Armstrong. Buzz inherited his passion for flight from his family where his father was a WWI pilot and commandant at an early Army test pilot school. During the Apollo 11 mission, and apparently unbeknownst to NASA at the time, Aldrin secretly smuggled "bread and wine" onto the ship for the first celebration of Christian communion on another planet. Of which, Buzz made the following comment: "It's interesting to think that some of the first words spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ." Can a celebrated astronaut, hero and Christian, having experienced the imperfection of 4 marriages and 3 divorces, qualify to enter Heaven?