What was the job title of this American engineer and former astronaut aboard Apollo 11, who inspired the musical Moon Landing?
Moon Landing (music drama) Moon Landing is a musical with book, lyrics and music by Stephen Edwards. The story, from an original idea and synopsis by Justin Fleming, is based on the American Space Race and the Apollo 11 spaceflight which on July 20, 1969 landed the first humans on the Moon and is seen through the eyes of Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon.
Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" is an American patriotic song which was popular in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Composed in about 1843, it was long used as an unofficial national anthem of the United States, in competition with other songs, and was featured in the 1957 musical "The Music Man". In 1969, "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" was the music performed by a U.S. Navy Band embarked aboard "USS Hornet" as one of the ship's helicopters recovered the first humans to walk on the Moon from the Pacific Ocean.