WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Buzz Aldrin was discharged from a New Zealand hospital on Friday and appeared to be heading home, a week after he was evacuated from the South Pole for medical reasons.

The nickname “Buzz” came from the way his sister Fay Ann said the word buzzer instead of brother. As a fighter pilot in the Korean War, he completed 66 F-86 combat missions, destroyed two MiG’s, ...