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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.
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 ...
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. Birthplace: Worcester, Worcester County, MA Deathplace: Brielle, Monmouth, NJ Father of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr, second man to walk on the moon.
Gene Aldrin died on December 28, 1974, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He married Marion G. Moon (1903-1968) of El Paso, Texas, on March 22, 1924, and their son Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., became the 2nd man to walk on the moon in 1969.
Jul 7, 2011 · Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is interviewed by phone from Los Angeles about his father, Edwin Aldrin, Sr. Edwin Aldrin counted among his friends airplane inventor Orville Wright, and Jimmy Doolittle, whose squadron of B-25s conducted the bombing of Tokyo in 1942, known forever as Doolittle’s Raid.
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.
