"Aldrin cycler, a special spacecraft trajectory that makes travel to Mars possible using less time and propellant. He was accorded numerous honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, and is listed in several Halls of Fame, and has plaques on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. was born January 20, 1930, in Mountainside Hospital, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. His parents were Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. and Marion Aldrin ( Moon), who lived in neighboring Montclair, New Jersey. His father was Army aviator during World War I, and the assistant commandant of the Army's test"
"14.78. This minor planet was named for American astronaut Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. He was one of the first two humans to land on the Moon, and the second person to walk on it, following Neil Armstrong, after whom the asteroid 6469 Armstrong is named. Its name was suggested by Czech astronomers Jana Tichá, Miloš Tichý and Zdeněk Moravec, who observed the asteroid during its 1995-opposition, shortly before being numbered. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 1999 (). 6470 Aldrin"
"future missions. Prior to the Apollo program (1968–1975), early space food development was conducted at the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and the Natick Army Labs. The variety of food options continued to expand for the Apollo missions. The new availability of hot water made rehydrating freeze-dried foods simpler, and produced a more appetizing result. The ""spoon-bowl"" allowed more normal eating practices. Food could be kept in special plastic zip-closure containers, and its moisture allowed it to stick to a spoon. On Sunday, 20 July 1969, Buzz Aldrin, on the moon, partook of the Presbyterian Christian sacrament of"
"pilot school at McCook Field, Ohio, from 1919 to 1922, but left the Army in 1928, and became an executive at Standard Oil. Aldrin had two siblings, both sisters: Madeleine, who was four years older, and Fay Ann, who was a year and a half older. His nickname, which became his legal first name in 1988, arose as a result of Fay's mispronouncing ""brother"" as ""buzzer"", which was then shortened to ""Buzz"". He was a Boy Scout and earned the rank of Tenderfoot Scout. Aldrin did well in school, maintaining an A average. He played football, and was the starting"
"Humanitarian Award from Variety, the Children's Charity, which, according to the organization, ""is given to an individual who has shown unusual understanding, empathy, and devotion to mankind."" In 2006, the Space Foundation awarded him its highest honor, the General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award. Aldrin received honorary degrees from six colleges and universities, and was named as the Chancellor of the International Space University in 2015. He was a member of the National Space Society's Board of Governors, and has served as the organization's chairman. In 2016, his hometown middle school in Montclair, New Jersey was renamed Buzz"
"the observance amounted to a government endorsement of religion in violation of the First Amendment, but the case was dismissed. On STS-128 astronaut Patrick Forrester brought a fragment of a Missionary Aviation Fellowship aircraft which crashed in Ecuador in 1956. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, a Presbyterian, performed a communion service for himself using a kit provided by his church. Aldrin had told flight director Chris Kraft of his plans and intended to broadcast the service back to Earth but opted not to at the request of Deke Slayton, due to the continuing controversy over Apollo 8's reading. A microfilm"
"on the Moon, and the first person to walk on it, shortly followed by Buzz Aldrin, after whom the asteroid 6470 Aldrin is named. The minor planet 6471 Collins is named after the third crew member of the Apollo 11 mission. In 1966, Armstrong also conducted the first docking in space together with David Scott aboard Gemini 8. The asteroid's name was suggested by Czech astronomers Jana Tichá, Miloš Tichý and Zdeněk Moravec, who observed it during its 1995-opposition, shortly before being numbered. The lunar crater ""Armstrong"" is also named in his honor. The approved naming citation was published by"
"6470 Aldrin 6470 Aldrin, provisional designation , is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at Kleť Observatory on 14 September 1982. It was named for American astronaut Buzz Aldrin. ""Aldrin"" is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 5 months (1,253 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.15 and an"
"Aldrin Middle School. The Aldrin crater on the Moon near the Apollo 11 landing site and Asteroid 6470 Aldrin are named in his honor. Aldrin has been married three times. His first marriage was in 1954 to Joan Archer, a Rutgers University and Columbia University alumna, and mother to his three children, James, Janice and Andrew. It ended in divorce in 1974. His second marriage was to Beverly Van Zile, whom he married in 1975 and divorced in 1978. His third to Lois Driggs Cannon, whom he married in 1988. Their divorce was finalized on December 28, 2012. The settlement"
"rejected by the Supreme Court of the United States for lack of jurisdiction, it caused NASA to be skittish about the issue of religion throughout the rest of the Apollo program. Buzz Aldrin, on Apollo 11, self-communicated Presbyterian Communion on the surface of the Moon after landing; he refrained from mentioning this publicly for several years, and only obliquely referred to it at the time. In 1969, the United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp (Scott catalogue #1371) commemorating the Apollo 8 flight around the Moon. The stamp featured a detail of the famous photograph of the Earthrise over"
"18, 1963. This made him the first astronaut with a doctoral degree. Combined with his expertise in orbital mechanics, it earned him his nickname from his fellow astronauts. ""From the outset,"" Walter Cunningham, a fellow member of the 1963 group, recalled, ""Buzz was referred to as 'Dr. Rendezvous' because of his obsession with rendezvous in space."" Aldrin was aware that it was not always intended as a compliment. Jim Lovell and Aldrin were selected as the backup commander and pilot respectively of Gemini 10. Backup crews usually became the prime crew of the third following mission, but in this case"
"Judaism to Protestant Christianity. Soon after, his father married Judith Berth dit La Motte in Bückeburg. Judith was the daughter of a hat maker, who resided in the French community in Berlin, and the granddaughter of a refugee who suffered under the Huguenot persecutions in France. At the time of his conversion baptism, the senior Accum changed his name from Markus Herz to Christian Accum. In addition to choosing the name ""Christian,"" which means ""follower of Christ"", Accum's father chose to emphasize his newly embraced religion by adopting the surname Accum, which derives from the Hebrew word ""Akum,"" meaning ""not-Jewish."""
"because of a lawsuit brought by atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair over the reading of Genesis on Apollo 8. Mindful of this controversy, NASA management had warned the Apollo 11 crew against making any explicit religious comments during the flight. Aldrin used a home communion kit given to him by his pastor at Webster Presbyterian Church, Dean Woodruff. He later noted: ""It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements."" On reflection, Aldrin felt that ""if I had it to do over again, I would"
"shot down two MiG-15 aircraft. After earning a Sc.D. degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aldrin was selected as a member of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a doctoral degree. His doctoral thesis was ""Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous"", earning him the nickname ""Dr. Rendezvous"" from fellow astronauts. His first space flight was Gemini 12 during which he spent over five hours on extravehicular activity (EVA) outside the spacecraft. Aldrin set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969 (UTC), nine minutes after Armstrong first touched the surface,"
"Holy Communion, which had been consecrated by his pastor, the Rev. Dean Woodruff, two weeks prior to the space mission. Aldrin received the Eucharist in the same hour that his local church did on that Sunday Sabbath and he later stated that ""I sensed especially strongly my unity with our church back home, and with the Church everywhere"". Larger living areas on the Skylab space station (1973–1974) allowed for an on-board refrigerator and freezer, which allowed perishable and frozen items to be stored and made microgravity the primary obstacle. When Skylab's solar panels were damaged during its launch and the"
"all of its tasks in real time and had to postpone some of them. The ""Eagle"" landed at 20:17:40 UTC on Sunday July 20 with about 25 seconds of fuel left. Aldrin, a Presbyterian elder, was the first person to hold a religious ceremony on the Moon. He radioed Earth: ""I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours, and to give thanks in his or her own way."" He took communion, but he kept it secret"
"(name)#Variant forms"" In the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was the earliest disciple of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles. Other saints named Andrew include: Andrew Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. In Italian, the equivalent to ""Andrew"" is ""Andrea"", though ""Andrea"" is feminine in most other languages. ""Andrew"" is frequently shortened to ""Andy"" or ""Drew"". The word is derived from the , ""Andreas"", itself related to ""aner/andros"", ""man"" (as opposed to ""woman""), thus meaning"
"the Crusades in the Holy Lands probably adopted the surname from ""Saint Jacques"" (or ""James the Greater""). Jacques was one of Jesus’ Twelve Apostles, and is believed to be the first martyred apostle. Being endowed with this surname was an honor at the time and it is likely that the Church allowed it because of acts during the Crusades. Indeed, at this time, the use of biblical, Christian, or Hebrew names and surnames became very popular, and entered the European lexicon. Robert J., a Knight Crusader in 1248 was the first documented use of the surname. Since then, several personalities"
"United States. Named after the nearby city of Winona, she was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents' friendship with Laura Huxley, writer Aldous Huxley's wife. Her stage name derives from Mitch Ryder, a soul and rock singer of whom her father was a fan. Ryder's father is an atheist and her mother is a Buddhist; they encouraged their children to take the best part of other religions and use them to make their own belief systems. Ryder has one full sibling, a younger brother, Urie (named in honor of the first Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin), and two"
"from the Crusades in the Holy Lands probably adopted the surname from “Saint Jacques” (or “James the Greater”). Jacques was one of Jesus’ Twelve Apostles, and is believed to be the first martyred apostle. Being endowed with this surname was an honor at the time and it is likely that the Church allowed it because of acts during the Crusades. Indeed, at this time, the use of biblical, Christian, or Hebrew names and surnames became very popular, and entered the European lexicon. Robert J., a Knight Crusader in 1248 was the first documented use of the surname. Since then, several"
"at ""Tonight with Boy Abunda"" in 2017, Zyrus' gender identity as a trans man was not known to the wider public. He was credited as his pre-transition name ""Charice"" prior to this television appearance. Raised in the Iglesia ni Cristo faith, Zyrus and younger brother Carl were baptized and confirmed into their mother's Roman Catholic faith on May 22, 2010, 12 days after Zyrus's 18th birthday, at the Pasig Cathedral in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. The more than 40 godparents included ABS-CBN network president Charo Santos-Concio, producer Laurenti Dyogi, ""The Buzz"" hosts Boy Abunda and Kris Aquino, segment host and"
"this church that the second Anglican female priest, and first female priest in Arizona, was ordained. In 1928, St. Alban's Chapel, an Episcopalian church, was established on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After undergoing several name changes, St. Albans is the name of a community West of Charleston, West Virginia, the capitol of the state. Saint Alban Saint Alban (; ) is venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr, and he is considered to be the British protomartyr. Along with fellow Saints Julius and Aaron, Alban is one of three named martyrs recorded at an"
"simply because his wife, who was moderately religious, never carried through with her plans, and he later accepted blame for the marital tensions. After Irwin became a born-again Christian, he mended relations with his wife, who also became a devout Christian, and the two enjoyed a very happy marriage until his death. In his autobiography, Irwin regretted not converting to Christianity earlier. Irwin was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He was chosen as Commander, with John S. Bull as Lunar Module Pilot, for LTA-8, an environmental qualification test of the Apollo Lunar Module in"
"affirmed the trial court's dismissal ""per curiam"". The Supreme Court declined to review the case. Later, on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, Buzz Aldrin received communion on the lunar surface shortly after landing. Although he did not keep his actions secret, he only said a non-religious sentence on the intercom and read from the scripture off-air. In 1969, the United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp (Scott # 1371) to commemorate the Apollo 8 mission and the reading. Apollo 8 Genesis reading On December 24, 1968, in what was the most watched television broadcast at the time, the crew"
"christen thee in the name of the Father"" etc. To ""christen"" in this context is therefore to ""baptise"", and ""Christian name"" means ""baptismal name"". In view of the Hebrew practice of giving a name to the male child at the time of his circumcision on the eighth day after birth (Luke 1:59), it has been maintained that the custom of conferring a name upon the newly baptised was of Apostolic origin. For instance, the apostle of the Gentiles was called Saul before his conversion and Paul afterwards. But modern scholars have rejected this contention, since the baptism of St. Paul"
"of jurisdiction. The challenge had limited effect. In the Apollo 11 mission, NASA officials asked lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin to refrain from quoting the Bible in broadcasts. He was allowed to conduct the first communion service in space. O'Hair appeared on ""The Phil Donahue Show"" several times, including the first episode in 1967. Later Donahue said that O'Hair was unpleasant in person and had mocked him off-camera for being a Catholic. She appeared on the show in March 1970 to debate Preacher Bob Harrington, ""The Chaplain of Bourbon Street"". O'Hair endorsed Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election because"
"following the Evian conference in 1938, had opened up East Africa to settlement by sixty Jewish farmers. Within months of his arrival in Kenya, Braun-Dusemond was interned as an enemy alien in the British internment camps of Nakuru, Nairobi and Kabete. Here he was converted to Christianity by his fellow inmates – the Italian Consolata Missionaries - in September 1940 and adopted the name of Valentin since he was born on St. Valentine’s day. Although beset by the humiliations of being a captive of the very people from whom he had sought salvation, Braun-Dusemond, was not too debilitated by his"
"and ""Asae/ Asaye/ Sae/ Saye/"" (God). The Luhya traditionally worshipped a god of the same name. When Christianity was first introduced among the Luhya in the early 1900s by various Christian missionaries from Europe and America, the Luhya took the name of their traditional god, Nyasae, forgot about their God, and gave that name to the God of Christianity, who, according to the Bible,is the father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and whose son is Jesus Christ. The first Luhyas who were converted into Christianity applied words that defined some aspects of the religious traditions that they were born into"
"who grew up in Orange County, California. Philip and his wife Jennifer legally changed their last name to Gadahn in the mid-1970s, after the Biblical warrior Gideon. Philip Gadahn was involved in the counterculture movement at the University of California at Irvine, and before Adam's birth became a Christian. Gadahn described his father as having been ""raised agnostic or atheist, but he became a believer in One God when he picked up a Bible left on the beach."" His father's religious perspective was flexible and based upon his own spiritual needs and as a new convert to Islam, Gadahn portrayed"
"apostles brought the Early Church into conflict with some Jewish religious authorities. This eventually led to their expulsion from the synagogues, according to one theory of the Council of Jamnia. Acts records the martyrdom of the Christian leaders, Stephen and James of Zebedee. Thus, Christianity acquired an identity distinct from Rabbinic Judaism, but this distinction was not recognised all at once by the Roman Empire, see Split of early Christianity and Judaism for details. The name ""Christian"" (Greek ) was first applied to the disciples in Antioch, as recorded in Acts 11:26. The sources for the beliefs of the apostolic"
"Atl, the Aztec word for ""water"", and also meaning ""home of our ancestors"". Atl became dedicated to political and social change and the group grew to about 100 members. Zell formed CAW from Atl, and filed for incorporation as a church in 1967. It was formally chartered on March 4, 1968, making it the first Earth religion to obtain full United States recognition as a church. CAW modeled its organization after the group in Heinlein's novel, as a series of 9 nests in circles of advancement that were each named after a planet. The basic dogma of the CAW was"
"of the corporation, amended its Articles of Incorporation to reflect the change of name to the Worldwide Church of God. (By then its radio broadcast had also been renamed ""The World Tomorrow""). By this time Armstrong was considered to be more of a modern-day apostle by his followers, rather than merely ""pastor general,"" his title in the church. After coming to terms regarding salary and compensation, in 1969 Rader decided to devote his full-time to the service of Armstrong. Rader, who still considered himself Jewish, was baptized into WCG by Armstrong in 1975 using a hotel bathtub in the Mandarin"
"national news. As a protest, Armstrong canceled a planned tour of the Soviet Union on behalf of the State Department saying: ""The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell"" and that he could not represent his government abroad when it was in conflict with its own people. The FBI kept a file on Armstrong for his outspokenness about integration. When asked about his religion, Armstrong answered that he was raised a Baptist, always wore a Star of David, and was friends with the pope. He wore the Star of David in honor of"