Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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Buzz Aldrin

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : January 20, 1930

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

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A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

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Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

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I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

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Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?

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The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

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You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

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The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.

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It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

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If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

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One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.

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Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible.

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Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

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I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

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I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.

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My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.

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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

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Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

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Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

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