His doctoral thesis was Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous, earning him the nickname "Dr. degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aldrin was selected as a member of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a doctoral degree.
He flew 66 combat missions and shot down two MiG-15 aircraft.Īfter earning a Sc.D. He was commissioned into the United States Air Force, and served as a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War. Aldrin is the last surviving crew member of Apollo 11.īorn in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Aldrin graduated third in the class of 1951 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, with a degree in mechanical engineering. Aldrin made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and, as Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two people to land on the Moon. Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous (1963)īuzz Aldrin ( / ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ n/ born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot.
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