Buzz Gallery

Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain

(ex Armee de l'Air) - Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain 92449 (msn 12251, call-sign FA') at Le Bourget Airport on display with the Musee de l'air et de l'espace in July 1982. 10 January 1944: 42-92449 delivered to the United States Army Air Force. 25Mar44: Eighth Air Force, 442nd Troop Carrier Group, Fulbeck (Station 488). 6 June 44: Transported paratroopers of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone near Sainte-Mere-eglise, Normandy, France on Mission Boston'. 16 July 1947: To FLC for disposal. To French civil registry as F-BEFB for Aigle-Azur Extreme-Orient. May 1960: To French AF as 92449. 1982: Noted in Musee de l'Air, Paris. 2004: repainted in fake colours and serial number, as 42-100558 Buzz Buggy'. Date: 1982

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Buzz Aldrin stands next to the American flag on the surface of the Moon, July 1969

Buzz Aldrin stands next to the American flag on the surface of the Moon, Apollo 11 mission, July 1969. US astronaut Edwin E "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr, lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, in the Sea of Tranquility during an Apollo 11 moon walk. The footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the lunar soil. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module, code named Eagle, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on board, landed in the Sea of Tranquillity on 20 July 1969. Apollo 11 was the fifth manned Apollo mission, and was the first to land on the Moon

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Buzz Aldrin descends from the Lunar Module, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Creator: Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin descends from the Lunar Module, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (b1930) descends the steps of the Lunar Module ladder to walk on the Moon. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module, code named Eagle, with US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on board, landed in the Sea of Tranquillity on 20 July 1969. Apollo 11 was the fifth manned Apollo mission, and was the first to land on the Moon

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