E., "Cyclic Trajectory Concepts", SAIC presentation to the Interplanetary Rapid Transit Study Meeting, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, October 1985. In June, Aldrin filed a lawsuit against Andrew, Janice, Korp, and businesses and foundations run by the family. Aldrin had neither managerial nor test pilot experience, but a third of the training curriculum was devoted to astronaut training and students flew a modified F-104 Starfighter to the edge of space. His doctoral thesis was Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous, the dedication of which read: "In the hopes that this work may in some way contribute to their exploration of space, this is dedicated to the crew members of this country's present and future manned space programs. He was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission and became the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong.

He played football and was the starting center for Montclair High School's undefeated 1946 state champion team.The astronauts were winched on board the recovery helicopter, and flown to the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, [100] where they spent the first part of the Earth-based portion of 21 days of quarantine.

In December 2003, Aldrin published an opinion piece in The New York Times criticizing NASA's objectives. On the morning of July 16, 1969, an estimated one million spectators watched the launch of Apollo 11 from the highways and beaches in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral, Florida.The first lunar landing focused more on landing on the Moon and making it safely back to Earth than the scientific aspects of the mission.