We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

S. Subsequent to the war Aldrin was assigned as an aerial gunnery instructor at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and next was an aide to the dean of faculty at the United States Air Force Academy which had recently begun operations in 1955. NASA career

Aldrin was selected as part of the third group of NASA astronauts selected in October 1963.

He is also a retired United States Air Force pilot. Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr.