Biography
Fighter-fighter Basz Oldrin, becoming an American astronaut, together with a colleague Nile Armstrong participated in flight to the moon. Having made three outlets into open space, the pilot of the expedition "Gemini-12" over the years of work in the NASA program was famous for the whole country.Childhood and youth
Edwin Eugene Oldrin - Jrhest was born in January 1930 in the family, where there were carriers of Scottish, Swedish and German roots. The parents who lived in New Jersey, at the time of the appearance of the long-awaited son, have already grown and stood on the feet of four healthy strong children.
Father was a professional military pilot, assistant to the Commandant of the Army School, and then left the service in the National Army for the sake of the well-being of the family. The mother was engaged in household and the upbringing of the younger generation, following the entwin and the rest became good people.
At an early age, the future pilot received a rather cute nickname: a sister who does not cross some letters called His Basz. Over time, this strange name learned thousands of American citizens, and it firmly entrenched in the history and consciousness of the masses.
In school years, Edwin has succeeded in the field of study, and was also a member of a football team, regularly conquered prizes. Then he went to the preparatory courses at the Naval Academy, in order to get a profession necessary for the good of the country.
At first, the young man with an increase in 178 cm and weighing, thanks to the exercise of sports that reached 75 kg, tried to make a career on a fleet, but after a few months she realized that he would never get used to massive, but unstable ships.
In the middle of 1947, Oldr Jr. came to the West Point Academy and, having passed a 3-year study course, became a bachelor of technical sciences. In student society, the guy became famous as a champion of athletics. In the last year, he actually entered the elite youth circle.
Personal life
Judging by the existing testimonies, Bazz Oldrina was not lucky in his personal life, although he had repeatedly fallen in love and acquired a family three times. In December 1954, American Joan Archer became his faithful girlfriend and the first legitimate wife.Soon after the solemn ceremony, the spouses had children, but two decades later it did not prevent the official divorce. The man joined the Montcler Masons Society No. 144, so the excellent sex was actively looking for a approach.
Good luck as a result smiled at the woman named Beverly Van Dat, but the new relationship did not bring happiness to anyone. After parting simplified by the lack of joint children, Oldrin became hard enough to perceive love connections.
In the winter of 1988, Loyce Drigs Canon, the Third and Last Wife appeared in the field of view of the astronaut. A woman with pseudo-monantic inclinations was interested in the state of her husband, although she pretended for many years that she didn't need a rich life.
After the divorce, Loyce received the right to dispose of a bank account, as well as interest from her husband's income and allowance to "not starve." Becoming a lonely older man, Bazz felt freedom and in an interview with journalists mentioned that he had descended to grace.
In 2018, the children decided to blame the father in insolvency: they wanted to become man guardians leaving the trail on the moon. History with mutual claims and legal proceedings was widely covered in Twitter Olders and Media registered in the country.
Career
In his youth, Edwin Oldrin - the younger piloted fighters, showed courage and courage in the bloody Korean war. Then the young man was trained in the American school of officers and worked for some time as an instructor for air shooting.
When the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went to near-earth orbit, the Basz ended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied launch vehicles and other modern technology, hoping with time to receive a reward for a detailed theoretical work.
As a result, the author of the thesis was enrolled in the third squad of astronauts NASA, he became an operator of radio communications on the ship "Gemini-5". After the death of colleagues on the program Eliott Si and Charles Basset, Oldrin and James Arthur Lovell, achieved permission to fly.
In the fall of 1966, Basz conquered the intergalactic space: the crew "Gemini-12" was sent to the orbit of the Earth. The native of New Jersey conducted research, while in the open space, however, the skeptical people could not believe in it.
Following Michael Collins, the Basz was prescribed by the Pilot "Apollo-11", and he became the second person who pulled into the surface of the moon. In 2015, viral video spread with recognition that the sole shot was falsified to strengthen the prestige of the country.
Despite this, the autographs of Edwin and his compatriot Nile Armstrong were immortalized in a dozen photo albums and journalistic books. A speech uttered by the Americans in the atmosphere of another planet, became a bright demonstration of what he achieved in life.
According to the canons prescribed in the Bible of the Protestant Presbyterian Church, Oldrin held a worship service and thanked fate. He until the last moment it was not believed that the flight, landing and returning home was not in a dream, but in reality.
In the early 70s for incomprehensible reasons, the astronaut completed his career in NASA. The man headed the school of the pilots of the Air Force. However, he quickly resigned and, feeling moral devastation, addicted to alcoholic beverages.
Treatment in the hospital San Antonio helped to cope with depression, and with time Oldrin joined a number of space programs. He matched for the colonization of Mars and the development of interplanetary tourism, dreaming of creating their own hotel and a restaurant in an airless space.
In 2000, Oldrin was engaged in the development of the high-tech industry, his work was supported by politicians and the American president. As part of the research, Basz went to the expedition to Antarctica, but health gave it to understand that for this he chose an inappropriate moment.
Basz Oldrin now
In the spring of 2020, Oldrin took up charity - sold his own autographs to support sick people. This act of a person who visited the lunar surface turned into the topic of videos and articles.
Now an elderly man is one of the two living astronauts who committed the national feat in 1969. Awards, signs of differences and places in the national halls of Glory became a demonstration of respect for many years of outstanding work.