Found an interesting piece of information about him and thought of sharing it here -
Aldrin got 2 Mig 15 kills as partof his Korea tenure as USAF pilot.
The attached picture shows ejection of a NVAF pilot recorded from Aldrin's Sabre's guns camera as partof his first kill

Source @joe_sameer on Twitter

 

Buzz is a character, as well as a brave pilot. The best video of him is punching out a ****** who harassed him about the moon landing never happened.

 

That picture was on the cover of Time Magazine, Aldrin was quite a celeb in the early 1950s and was interviewed on TV. Armstrong was a fighter jock too, of the Navy kind and no less experienced. On his Korea cruise, 27 other pilots from the carrier on which he served were posted KIA, he had to eject at least once, something which became a habit with him it seems. The early astronauts were all pretty extraordinary.

ps the pilot was likely Soviet and not NVAF (did you mean NKAF?). The Mig 15s were being piloted by Russians.

 

Those were the days when the astronauts really had to have the 'right stuff'. Fast forward to 2010 and we had a NASA administrator who thought one of NASA's main missions was to try to make Muslims feel good about themselves and their contributions. And now we are dedicated to return to the moon within the next five years with one of the criteria being it must include a woman. I have no problem with Muslims or women, but the main goal must be to get the BEST people regardless of religious affiliation or chromosome makeup. But everything has to be PC these days, even space travel.

 

I can think of reasons beyond PC for having females on board. If there is still a dream for a permanent habitat, on the moon or Mars, I can't imagine it not being a mix of men & women. At some point, the whole space process must become so businesslike, that selecting "good enough" will be the way rather than selecting "best."