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Among the most interesting of guests on The Bluff over the years: Air Force Colonel Buzz Aldrin, who received an honorary doctorate in science in 1970. The Colonel (whose mother’s name was Moon), flew 66 fighter missions in Korea, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross; has received three patents for his spacecraft innovations; devised a way to set up permanent transportation to and from Mars; earned a doctorate in science from MIT; was the first human being to walk in space, in 1966; has an asteroid named for him; has written many books, among them two space novels; and, oh yes, was the second human being to stroll on the moon, in 1969, with his colleague Neil Armstrong. Autumn 2012 53
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