Buzz Aldrin
Year Title Role Notes
1976 The Boy in the Plastic Bubble Himself TV movie
1986 Punky Brewster Himself episode Accidents Happen , March 9 , 1986
1989 After Dark Himself Extended appearance on British discussion program , with among others Heinz Wolff , Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Whitley Strieber
1994 The Simpsons Himself ( voice ) Episode : Deep Space Homer . Aldrin accompanies Homer Simpson on a trip into space as part of NASA 's plan to improve its public image
1997 Space Ghost Coast to Coast Himself Episodes : Brilliant Number One and Brilliant Number Two
1999 Disney 's Recess Himself ( voice ) Episode : Space Cadet
2003 Da Ali G Show Himself 2 episodes
2006 Numb3rs Himself Episode : Killer Chat
2007 In the Shadow of the Moon Himself Documentary
2008 Fly Me to the Moon Himself
2010 30 Rock Himself Episode : The Moms
2010 Dancing with the Stars Himself/contestant 2nd eliminated in season 10
2011 Transformers : Dark of the Moon Himself Aldrin explains to Optimus Prime and the Autobots that Apollo 11 's top secret mission was to investigate a Cybertronian ship on the far side of the Moon whose existence was concealed from the public
2011 Futurama Himself ( voice ) Episode : Cold Warriors
2012 Space Brothers Himself
2012 The Big Bang Theory Himself Episode : The Holographic Excitation
2012 Mass Effect 3 The Stargazer ( voice ) Aldrin played a stargazer who appears in the video game 's final scene
2015 Jorden runt på 6 steg Himself Successfully tested six degrees of separation
2016 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Himself Was interviewed and took part in a skit
2016 Hell 's Kitchen Himself Dining room guest and had his dinner cooked by the blue team due to their team challenge win
In the media -- Filmography
Buzz Aldrin (/ˈɔːldrɪn/; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American engineer, former astronaut and fighter pilot. Aldrin made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and as the lunar module pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Aldrin graduated third in the class of 1951 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was commissioned into the United States Air Force, and served as a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War. He flew 66 combat missions and 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 in 1966 on Gemini 12 during which he spent over five hours on extravehicular activity. Three years later, Aldrin set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969 (UTC), nineteen minutes after Armstrong first touched the surface, while command module pilot Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit. A Presbyterian elder, Aldrin became the first person to hold a religious ceremony on the Moon when he privately took communion. Upon leaving NASA in 1971, Aldrin became Commandant of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School.