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Edwin Eugene "Gene" Aldrin Sr. (12 April 1896 – 28 December 1974) was an aviator and officer in the United States Army during World War I and World War II. He was assistant commandant of the Army's first test pilot school at McCook Field , Ohio , from 1919 to 1922, and founded the engineering school there that later became the Air Force ...
Buzz 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. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. He was the second person to walk on the Moon after mission ...
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Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr., known as Gene, was born in 1896. He attended Clark University, graduating in 1915. There, he studied under Robert Goddard, who encouraged Aldrin's interest in aviation. Aldrin received his doctorate in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He married Marion Moon, and the couple later ...
- April 12, 1896
- December 28, 1974
EDWIN EUGENE ALDRIN, SR. E.E. Aldrin, Sr., ca. 1932. E.E. Aldrin was born at Worcester, MA April 12, 1896. He attended grammar and high schools at Worcester, graduated from Clark University in 1915, from Worcester Polytechnic with honors in 1916, and the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) with master's (1927) and Ph.D. (1928) degrees.
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. V. Birth. 12 Apr 1896. Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. Death. 28 Dec 1974 (aged 78) San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA. Burial. Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA Show Map. Plot. Sec: 2, Site: E-156' Memorial ID. 32487280. · View Source. Suggest Edits.
Veteran Tributes. Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr. Rank, Service. Colonel O-6, U.S. Air Force. Veteran of: Tribute: Gene Aldrin was born on April 12, 1896, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Jul 7, 2011 · What’s intrigued him this day is the topic: his father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr., Clark University Class of 1915. While Buzz Aldrin earned a headline in history as the second man to walk on the moon, Aldrin Sr. was himself an aviation pioneer who crisscrossed the country by air and broke bread with some of American history’s most galvanizing ...
