Buzz Aldrin Signed July 21, 1969 New York Times Front Page Print.

ALDRIN, Buzz.

Item Number: 142509

Printed copy of the front page of the ‘late edition’ of the July 21, 1969 issue of The New York Times with the headline “Men Walk on Moon” signed by Buzz Aldrin. One page, photographic copy. Signed by Buzz Aldrin in sliver ink. In fine condition. 

American engineer and astronaut Buzz Aldrin made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and as the lunar module pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon. Upon leaving NASA in 1971, Aldrin became Commandant of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. He retired from the Air Force in 1972, after 21 years of service. He has been accorded numerous honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, and is listed in several Halls of Fame.