Ex-Astronaut Aldrin Not to Face Charges in Punching - Sat Sep 21, 7:49 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin escaped criminal prosecution on Friday for punching a conspiracy theorist who wanted him to swear on a Bible that he really did walk on the moon in 1969.

Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to file a misdemeanor battery charge against the 72-year-old ex-astronaut, who said he was defending himself and his stepdaughter when he clocked 37-year-old Bart Winfield Sibrel outside a Beverly Hills hotel on Sept. 9.

--Sweet. You go Buzz!