Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 20, 2020 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  11:21, 13 December 2019 (UTC)



Buzz Aldrin (born January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut and fighter pilot. As lunar module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission, he and Neil Armstrong were the first humans to land on the Moon. A graduate of West Point and MIT, where he earned a doctorate in astronautics, Aldrin served as an Air Force fighter pilot during the Korean War, flying 66 combat missions and shooting down two MiGs. He was selected as an astronaut with NASA's third group in 1963. His first spaceflight was in 1966 on Gemini 12, during which he spent over five hours outside the spacecraft. He set foot on the Moon on July 21, 1969 (UTC), nine minutes after Armstrong. He left NASA in 1971 and became commandant of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. His autobiographies Return to Earth and Magnificent Desolation recount his struggles with depression and alcoholism. He developed the Aldrin cycler, a Mars spacecraft trajectory, and continues to advocate for space exploration, particularly a human mission to Mars.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Frank Borman December 24, Michael Collins (astronaut) October 31
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 * Promoted: 18 March 2019
 * Reasons for nomination: Aldrin's 90th birthday is 20 January
 * Support as nominator. --valereee (talk) 21:56, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Article was brought to Featured for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 in 2019. Aldrin is not the oldest living Apollo astronaut, but he is the oldest living moonwalker, a group now sadly reduced to just four.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  22:24, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Support – I made a minor change. We are now at 1020 characters and blurb looks good. --- C &amp; C  (Coffeeandcrumbs) 23:16, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Support  Kees08  (Talk)   02:30, 7 December 2019 (UTC).
 * Support L293D (☎ • ✎) 03:36, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Gog the Mild (talk) 17:21, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Support: Notable historical figure. Praemonitus (talk) 22:03, 11 December 2019 (UTC)