Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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Buzz Aldrin

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : January 20, 1930

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

Buzz Aldrin

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

Buzz Aldrin

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

Buzz Aldrin

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

Buzz Aldrin

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.

Buzz Aldrin

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

Buzz Aldrin

Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

Buzz Aldrin

If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.

Buzz Aldrin

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

Buzz Aldrin

My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

Buzz Aldrin

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

Buzz Aldrin

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

Buzz Aldrin

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Buzz Aldrin

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

Buzz Aldrin

Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

Buzz Aldrin

I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.

Buzz Aldrin

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

Buzz Aldrin

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

Buzz Aldrin

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

Buzz Aldrin

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.

Buzz Aldrin