Buzz Aldrin's rock.

Buzz Aldrin Birthplace Rock

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was Moon Man #2, but he's been the public face of America's extraterrestrial-strolling astronauts ever since (Neil Armstrong, #1, shunned the spotlight). It's difficult to resist the appeal of a spaceman named Buzz, who liked the nickname so much that he made it his legal name in 1988.

Buzz around Buzz was apparent even back in 1969, only a couple of months after his moonwalk, when his home town celebrated "Buzz Aldrin Day" for "Montclair's Man on the Moon" and put a plaque on a rock in front of his childhood home. It's a "moon rock," kind of.

Buzz Aldrin Birthplace Rock

Address:: 25 Princeton Place, Montclair, NJ
Directions:: Garden State Parkway exit 151. Drive west on Watchung Ave. for a couple of miles, turn right onto Mountain Ave., drive three blocks, turn right onto Parkside St., then make the first right on Princeton Place. The rock and house are on the southeast corner of Parkside and Princeton.

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April 10, 2013