Buzz Aldrin Net Worth

Buzz Aldrin has an estimated net worth of $12 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, Buzz Aldrin net worth page (figures as of February 17, 2025).

Buzz Aldrin is an American former astronaut, aeronautical engineer and fighter pilot who was born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. on January 20, 1930, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. His nickname came from his sister mispronouncing brother as buzzer, and it became his legal first name in 1988. He graduated third in the West Point class of 1951 with a degree in mechanical engineering, then flew 66 combat missions as an Air Force jet pilot in the Korean War and shot down two MiG-15 fighters.

He earned a Doctor of Science in astronautics from MIT, becoming the first astronaut with a doctoral degree, and his work on orbital rendezvous earned him the nickname Dr. Rendezvous. On Gemini 12 in 1966 he made three spacewalks. In 1969, as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, he became the second person to walk on the Moon, and that same year he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He left NASA in 1971, led the Air Force Test Pilot School, and retired from the Air Force in 1972 after 21 years of service.

How Buzz Aldrin makes his money

His long public service career came first. Twenty-one years in the Air Force, including combat flying, NASA spaceflight and command of the Test Pilot School, gave him a career built on service, not big paydays.

Books are a lasting stream. His autobiographies Return to Earth in 1973 and Magnificent Desolation in 2009 tell the story of the Moon landing and of his struggles with depression and alcoholism after leaving NASA.

Space advocacy has defined his later decades. He has pushed for a human mission to Mars and developed the Aldrin cycler, a spacecraft trajectory designed to make travel to Mars more efficient in both time and propellant.

Above all, his fame endures. As the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 crew and the oldest living astronaut, he remains one of the best-known figures in the history of exploration, and that recognition supports his books and public work.

His estimate

Celebrity Net Worth estimates Buzz Aldrin's net worth at $12 million, on its page last updated February 17, 2025. That figure is an outside estimate of what the star has earned and kept after taxes, fees and spending. It is not an official number, and the star has not confirmed it or published personal finances.

His figure reflects a lifetime of military and NASA service, two memoirs and decades of space advocacy. We will add any newer dated estimate from a named outlet to the chart above, and we never fill in the years between published figures.