Buzz Aldrin Walks Nick Graham

Nobody’s going to remember Buzz Aldrin for his walk down the runway at the Nick Graham fashion show.

The man’s an official Great American. Landed a spaceship on the moon. Walked on it, too. Fighter pilot, holder of an aeronautics doctorate from MIT. Before #goals was a thing, Buzz Aldrin was all of them.

So why give a sh*t that he walked Nick Graham’s show?

Buzz Aldrin is 87 years old, and he looks like a — What word can you give a living American hero? A badass? A boss? We’re not worthy, Buzz, of whichever descriptor is appropriate for a hero in a shiny silver bomber jacket.

Graham’s show, entitled “Life on Mars: Fall-Winter 2035,” also featured Bill Nye, as both catwalk model and narrator.

We don’t want to make too big a deal of this, but if you’ll allow us to make too big a deal of this, we’re happy to live in a world where a nearly 90-year-old astronaut gets his rightful place of pride as an aspirational figure. Who would you rather be: Buzz Aldrin or a 19-year-old from Estonia with aggressive cheekbones?

Here’s what Buzz had to say:

Walking the runway for @itsnickgraham #Mars collection WAS as easy as walking on the moon. #NYFWM pic.twitter.com/iTxgOuFLrU

— Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) January 31, 2017

More of this — science and merit — in our world, please.

Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

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Diane Rommel

Diane Rommel has written for The Wall Street Journal, Outside, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Travel + Leisure, Wallpaper and Afar, as well as The Cut, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and McSweeney’s. She once drove from London to Mongolia, via Siberia.