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Buzz Aldrin

awards from the United States and numerous other countries. Since retiring from NASA, the Air Force, and his position as Commander of the Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, Dr. Aldrin has remained at the forefront of efforts to ensure America’s continued leading role in manned space exploration. To advance his lifelong commitment to venturing outward in space, he has created a master plan of evolving missions for sustained exploration utilizing his concept, “The Cycler,” a spacecraft system that makes perpetual orbits between Earth and Mars. In 1993, Dr. Aldrin received a U.S. patent for a permanent space station he designed. More recently, he established his rocket design company, Starcraft Boosters, Inc. and the ShareSpace Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to opening the doors to space tourism for all people. Currently, Buzz is lecturing and traveling throughout the world to pursue and discuss his and others' latest concepts and ideas for exploring the universe. Finally, Dr. Aldrin remains a leading voice in charting the course of future space efforts from Earth. In 2005, Buzz published a children’s book Reaching for the Moon with paintings by Wendell Minor.

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