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Topic: Buzz Aldrin inducted into NJ Hall of Fame
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Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-05-2008 10:15 AM
   
Excerpted from the Hall's website: quote:
Enterprise
The Enterprise Category is open to scientists, business leaders, inventors, leaders in medicine, entrepreneurs and philanthropists.Buzz Aldrin (Montclair)
Born and raised in Montclair, Buzz Aldrin distinguished himself in West Point and during the Korean War. Selected as a NASA astronaut, Buzz earned the privilege to be part of the historic Apollo 11 flight to the moon where he and Neil Armstrong became the first humans to walk on the moon.
Aldrin joins Malcolm Forbes and Robert Wood Johnson II in that category, and joins Bruce Springsteen, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and Yogi Berra, among others as the first class in the NJ Hall of Fame.I wasn't there but I think I saw that Aldrin attended the festivities. Now if we only get the other 17 or so NJ-related astronauts in...  |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 05-05-2008 10:53 AM
I would have thought Wally Schirra would have been inducted the first time around. | |
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