Why Wasn’t Buzz Aldrin First on the Moon?

Opublikowano: 2026-05-30

Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969, but what if history had gone differently? Today I explore one of the most fascinating questions in space history: Why wasn’t Buzz Aldrin first on the Moon? Was Neil Armstrong always NASA's choice? Did Apollo 11 follow a predetermined plan? And what role did NASA politics, astronaut personalities, spacecraft design, and pure circumstance play in deciding who would take the most famous step in human history? Along the way, we'll dig into the controversy surrounding Armstrong's famous "one small step for man" qu...