Buzz Aldrin was an American astronaut and the second person to walk on the moon. He graduated from West Point and got a doctorate in science from MIT. On the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first two people to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon. James Lovell was a NASA astronaut who flew on the Gemini 7, Gemini 12 and Apollo 13 missions. Eugene Cernan was an astronaut who walked in space during the Gemini 9 mission and was the last person to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 17.