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Buzz Aldrin Reveals His Presidential Endorsement

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October 30, 2024

Buzz Aldrin, the American hero and former NASA astronaut who joined Neil Armstrong for humanity’s first trip to the moon, passionately announced his choice for president over the weekend.

Aldrin has not been known to delve much into the political world, instead garnering headlines for batting back (sometimes literally) conspiracy theories about the federal government staging the moon landing. Now 94, and 55 years after he first set foot on alien soil, Aldrin said he believes America is at a pivotal crossroads and can only be led back to greatness by former President Donald Trump. “The Presidency requires an understanding of human nature, clarity in judgement, decisiveness, knowledge, understanding, and calm under pressures few have a natural ability to manage, or the life experience to successfully undertake,” Aldrin wrote in a letter released on Saturday.

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NBC15 added that Aldrin’s desire for a “proven, tested, and serious” leader like Trump requires someone who can make a “sober analysis” in times of great stress. Furthermore, Trump is the best candidate to “lead with resolve,” Aldrin said. “From the skies over Korea in air-to-air combat to navigating, landing, and walking on the Moon, I appreciate this kind of pressure,” he wrote. “I know what it is like to have to make these kinds of decisions, firmly, on principle, with resolve and follow-through. Training, experience, and trust matter.”

With turbulence overseas, Aldrin also credited Trump for founding the Space Force, a new arm of the U.S. military focused on generating strategic capabilities and counterstrike measures from orbit. Space, Aldrin wrote, cannot remain a “contested domain”; instead, America must assert its dominance amid a “global security landscape.” Aldrin also cited Trump’s order to reconvene the National Space Council, which had sat dormant since 1993. “These are concrete accomplishments that align with my concerns and America’s policy priorities,” Aldrin wrote.

The government’s interest has “waxed and waned” over the years toward space and hopes of interplanetary travel, Aldrin added, but those commitments will once again be met under a second Trump administration. “Under the first Trump Administration, I was impressed to see how human space exploration was elevated, made a policy of high importance again,” the address reads. “Under President Trump’s first term, America saw a revitalized interest in space.” Trump’s “national efforts” to return men to the moon, a goal which aligns with those of Elon Musk, will renew Americans’ inspiration for what’s possible through science, Aldrin concluded.

“For me, for the future of our Nation, to meet enormous challenges, and for the proven policy accomplishments above, I believe the nation is best served by voting for Donald J. Trump,” the astronaut said. “I wholeheartedly endorse him for President of the United States. Godspeed President Trump, and God Bless the United States of America.”