CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: After his NASA years, Neil Armstrong settled into a quiet life of teaching and business, away from public attention. But life for Buzz Aldrin took a turn for the worse.
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Junior was born in nineteen thirty in New Jersey. His father was an early pilot. Both of them became Air Force colonels.
His sister had found it difficult to say "brother." Instead she said "buzzer,” which became shortened to Buzz. Later in life, he legally changed his name to Buzz.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Buzz Aldrin graduated third in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. He was a fighter pilot in the Korean War who shot down two enemy fighters.
He earned a doctorate in aeronautics -- the science of flight -- at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He helped develop the use of underwater training to prepare astronauts to work in the weightless environment of space.
He first went into space as part of the Gemini twelve crew in November of nineteen sixty-six. He carried out a spacewalk that lasted more than five hours.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Buzz Aldrin spent years preparing to go to the moon, but he was unprepared for the life that awaited him back on Earth.
Suddenly he was giving speeches to thousands of people. He was riding in parades, receiving awards, meeting world leaders, answering questions at press conferences. He had walked on the moon, and everyone had the same question: What was it like? It was all too much, he says.
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