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Posts circulating on Facebook in late 2020 and early 2021 claim that Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr., the second person to walk on the moon, claimed that he “saw aliens while he was there.” According to the posts, Aldrin “told nasa (sic) & later took a lie detector test, which he passed.” This claim is partly false, as the astronaut did describe seeing an unidentified object moving outside of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, but the sighting was explained soon after the mission returned. This NASA file image shows U.S. astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, one of three Apollo 11 astronauts, during the lunar landing mission on July 20, 1969. Apollo 11, launched forty years ago today on July 16, 1969, carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, who was the Mission Commander and the first man to step on the moon, Aldrin, who was the Lunar Module Pilot, and Michael Collins, who was the Command Module pilot. Armstrong was the photographer for this image. REUTERS/Neil Armstrong-NASA/Handout Recent examples of posts can be found Some iterations This image does not show Aldrin, but rather Charles M. Duke, Jr., the lunar module pilot who crewed the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, collecting lunar samples near the rim of Plum Crater. Provided by NASA, the original photo, taken by Apollo 16’s commander John W. Young, can be found Aldrin was not on the Apollo 16 mission, but rather the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, joined by Commander Neil A. Armstrong and command module pilot Michael Collins ( In a 2014 “Ask Me Anythin...

USA TODAY The claim: Video shows Buzz Aldrin admitting the moon landing didn’t happen An Instagram postclaims to show astronautBuzz Aldrin admitting that the famous The “Buzz Aldrin yet again admitting the moon landing ‘didn’t happen,’" reads the post's caption. "How many times does he have to say it before the sheep believe him?” The postwas liked more than 500 times in a week. But the claim is false. A review of Aldrin's Follow us on Facebook! USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the claim for comment. The post takes clip of Aldrin out of context The clip featured in the Instagram post was taken from a The Union describes itself as "the world's foremost debating society," but there's nodebating whether the moon landing happened. The full video of the event, which can be found on “I looked down and below this sort of dust there was something that didn’t look like it belonged there," says Aldrin. "There was a circuit breaker, a broken circuit breaker." Fact check: Aldrin said to fix the problem, he used a pen to push the circuit breaker in, which USA TODAY has previously debunked claims that Our rating: False Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that a video shows Aldrin admitting the moon landing didn’t happen. In the full video, Aldrin tells stories about his experiences on the moon. There is widespread documentation that the moon landing happened. Our fact-check sources: • Buzz Aldrin’s website, accessed Oct. 7, • History, Dec. 3, 2019, • History, Jan....

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 25: Buzz Aldrin throws out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Game Three of the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and … Read More WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 25: Buzz Aldrin throws out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Game Three of the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on October 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) Read Less WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 25: Buzz Aldrin throws out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Game Three of the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and … Read More WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 25: Buzz Aldrin throws out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Game Three of the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on October 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) Read Less He said they were married during a small private ceremony in Los Angeles and “are as excited as eloping teenagers.” In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, the mission commander, and fellow astronauts Buzz Aldrin — the lunar module pilot — and Michael Collins — the command module pilot — blasted off in Apollo 11 on a nearly 250,000-mile journey to the moon. It took them four days to reach their destination.

Not long after ex-World War I aviator John Macready left his California ranch at the age of 54 to serve again in World War II, he was checked out in one of the B-17 bombers he’d soon be flying over North Africa. A young lieutenant, eager to tout the modern, high-altitude capability of the Flying Fortress, pointed out the supercharger that made such missions possible. “Know anything about these, sir?” he asked the veteran of the Great War. Today, Sally Macready Wallace chuckles at the irony: “Daddy just looked at him and said, ‘Yes Lieutenant, I believe I do.’” Twenty years earlier, as chief test pilot at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio, John Macready had stunned the aviation world by flying a biplane fitted with the world’s first operational supercharger to an astonishing altitude of 34,500 feet. At one point during the flight, nearly seven miles up, it was so cold in the open cockpit that the pilot’s oxygen tube clogged with ice from his own breath. Just another day’s work at America’s first flight laboratory. Variable-pitch propellers. Guided missiles. An operational rotorcraft 10 years before Sikorsky. Landing lights and radio navigation. The first nonstop transcontinental flight. The Gerhardt Cycleplane, which collapsed in a heap. Around the world in an airplane—before anyone else. Higher, faster, farther. Part Skunk Works and part research center, the R&D operation at McCook Field was the launch pad for much of 20th century aviation technology. More than 2,300 people wor...