{"id":192721,"date":"2024-07-10T12:35:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/buzz-aldrin-apollo-11-astronaut-who-walked-on-the-moon-will-speak-in-san-diego-this-month"},"modified":"2024-07-10T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:35:29","slug":"buzz-aldrin-apollo-11-astronaut-who-walked-on-the-moon-will-speak-in-san-diego-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/buzz-aldrin-apollo-11-astronaut-who-walked-on-the-moon-will-speak-in-san-diego-this-month","title":{"rendered":"Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the moon, will speak in San Diego this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/buzz-aldrin-apollo-11-astronaut-who-walked-on-the-moon-will-speak-in-san-diego-this-month.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edwin \u201cBuzz\u201d Aldrin, the Apollo 11 astronaut who became the second person to set foot on the moon during a mission that captivated the world in the summer of 1969, will be a featured speaker at the San Diego Air and Space Museum on July 20.<\/p>\n<p>Aldrin, 94, is scheduled to participate in a question-and-answer session during a gala that will be held on the 55th anniversary of the moon landing, which was broadcast to an estimated 650 million people on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Astronaut Neil Armstrong left the lunar module Eagle first and famously said, \u201cThat\u2019s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,\u201d as he touched the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin \u201cBuzz\u201d Aldrin, the Apollo 11 astronaut who became the second person to set foot on the moon during a mission that captivated the world in the summer of 1969, will be a featured speaker at the San Diego Air and Space Museum on July 20. Aldrin, 94, is scheduled to participate in a question-and-answer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}