David Bowie says Aldrin nearly ready to go home

Buzz Aldrin, the 86-year-old retired US astronaut who was the second man to walk on the Moon, has been evacuated from the South Pole for medical reasons, officials said on December 1, 2016.-AFP

Christchurch, New Zealand, Dec 6, 2016 (AFP) - Former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, expects to be discharged from a New Zealand hospital soon, thanks to the Starman’s namesake David Bowie. 

”Thank heaven @TheRealBuzz’s doctor is David Bowie. You can’t make this stuff up,” his manager Christina Korp tweeted Tuesday with a photo of Aldrin in a Christchurch hospital along with the doctor who has the same name as the late British singer.