Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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Buzz Aldrin

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : January 20, 1930

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

Buzz Aldrin

Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

Buzz Aldrin

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

Buzz Aldrin

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Buzz Aldrin

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Buzz Aldrin

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

Buzz Aldrin

Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.

Buzz Aldrin

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

Buzz Aldrin

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

Buzz Aldrin

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

Buzz Aldrin

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

Buzz Aldrin

Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.

Buzz Aldrin

I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.

Buzz Aldrin

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

Buzz Aldrin

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

Buzz Aldrin

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

Buzz Aldrin

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

Buzz Aldrin

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

Buzz Aldrin