Buzz Aldrin News

Aldrin was presenting an award to Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver who jumped from space last year, and joked about how jealous he was of Baumgartner's Red Bull sponsorship.

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses for a snapshot while inside the Lunar Module in this July 1969 NASA image.

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin leads area school children through moon walk footprints set in concrete at the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda June 11, 2013.

ANTHONY PLASCENCIA/THE STAR Famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin answers questions from the audience after a talk at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Saturday to promote his new book.

Apollo 11 space mission US astronaut Neil Armstrong is seen smiling at the camera aboard the lunar module "Eagle" on July 21, 1969 after spending more than 2 1 2 hours on the lunar surface.

This is a major geek out, Thomas Dolby sings his classic "She Blinded Me With Science" with Buzz Aldrin taking the role of the late, great Dr Magnus Pike.

The man lovingly known as the second man on the moon will make a landing this month right in the midstate.

While astronaut Buzz Aldrin enjoys movies about space, he doesn't always think they get it right.

Did Neil Armstrong's famous first words spoken on the moon include the "a" in "one small step for a man" or not? Debated for more than four decades, the answer may be found in the astronaut's midwestern accent, researchers now say.

A day after attending the New York premiere of the post-apocalyptic thriller, "After Earth," he admits the film was a great family drama, but the space scenes were not realistic.

Buzz Aldrin has been making the media rounds this week, telling a sports radio station that establishing a human colony on Mars is attainable by 2035 and panning the big-budget summer movie After Earth in an interview with the Huffington Post.

Montclair native Buzz Aldrin along with Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.

A new auction is set to begin of space- and aviation-related autographs, covers, photos, patches, hardware, correspondence, reports, and many types of flown personal mementos from the collections of astronauts themselves.

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'In space you don't get that much noise': Buzz Aldrin says new film After Earth is great family drama but the loud space scenes were unrealistic In space, no-one can hear you scream.

In 1968, just a year before the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing , NASA scientists discovered something that could have sent astronauts Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins plunging to their deaths: an unexpected gravitational force-one so strong it caused the unmanned Lunar Orbiter spacecraft to violently shake up and down as it orbited ... (more)

A day after attending the New York premiere of the post-apocalyptic thriller "After Earth," he says the film was a great family drama, but the space scenes were not realistic.

Samples of moon dust gathered by the first men to walk on the moon and missing for more than 40 years have been found in a California warehouse, officials said.

Vials of the long lost lunar samples. Most of water on Earth thought to have come from ice-bearing meteorites; some of that water transported with new Moon during its birth in cataclysmic collision Twenty vials of moon rock and lunar soil collected by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 moon landing mission in 1969 have been found ... (more)

Yesterday, Cnet reported that an archivist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found 20 vials containing moon dust in a storage warehouse.