Second to None: Here's the Buzz on Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin may forever be think of as the " silver medallist " of theApollo 11 missionwhen he became the 2d human being to ill-treat invertebrate foot on the moon . But to dismiss Aldrin as history ’s most famous 2d - place finisher is to disregard his whiz , his bravery and his hardworking advocacy for man space exploration . Space historiographer and authorRod Pylehas met and interviewed Aldrin a phone number of times and never ceases to be amazed by the 89 - yr - old cosmonaut ’s dynamic employment with the future of spaceflight , from prepare the next generation of astronauts to designing the engineering science to shuttle world to Mars ....