Editing Buzz Aldrin (section)

=== Bart Sibrel incident ===
On September 9, 2002, Aldrin was lured to a [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] hotel on the pretext of being interviewed for a Japanese children's television show on the subject of space.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25722889/tampa_bay_times/ |title=Lunar Lunacy |via=Newspapers.com |newspaper=Tampa Bay Times |location=St. Petersburg, Florida |page=1F |date=September 29, 2002 |last1=Bancroft |first1=Colette}}</ref> When he arrived, [[Moon landing conspiracy theories|Moon landing conspiracy theorist]] [[Bart Sibrel]] accosted him with a film crew and demanded he swear on a Bible that the Moon landings were not faked. After a brief confrontation, during which Sibrel followed Aldrin despite being told to leave him alone, and called him "a coward, a liar, and a thief" the 72-year-old Aldrin punched Sibrel in the jaw, which was caught on camera by Sibrel's film crew. Aldrin said he had acted to defend himself and his stepdaughter. Witnesses said Sibrel had aggressively poked Aldrin with a Bible. Additional mitigating factors were that Sibrel sustained no visible injury and did not seek medical attention, and that Aldrin had no criminal record. The police declined to press charges against Aldrin.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-astronaut escapes assault charge |work=BBC News |date=September 21, 2002 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2272321.stm |access-date=January 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://theweek.com/article/index/265042/speedreads-watch-a-72-year-old-buzz-aldrin-punch-a-jerk-in-the-face-for-calling-him-a-liar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723222451/http://theweek.com/article/index/265042/speedreads-watch-a-72-year-old-buzz-aldrin-punch-a-jerk-in-the-face-for-calling-him-a-liar |archive-date=July 23, 2014 |title=Buzz Aldrin Punches a Jerk in the Face for Calling Him a Liar |url-status=dead |date=July 21, 2014 |access-date=July 21, 2014 |newspaper=The Week}}</ref>

[[File:Thunderbirds pilots pose for a photo with Buzz Aldrin.jpg|thumb|left|[[USAF Thunderbirds]] pilots pose for a photo with Aldrin prior to his flight at an air show in [[Melbourne, Florida]], on April 2, 2017. Aldrin became the oldest person to fly with the Thunderbirds.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2017/04/02/buzz-aldrin-flies-thunderbirds/99954358/ |title=Buzz Aldrin flies with the Thunderbirds |first=Wayne T. |last=Price |newspaper=Florida Today |date=April 2, 2017 |access-date=November 10, 2018}}</ref> |alt=Five men in blue jump suits pose with Aldrin in an olive jump suit on the runway in front of a white F-16]]