Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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Buzz Aldrin

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : January 20, 1930

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

Buzz Aldrin

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.

Buzz Aldrin

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

Buzz Aldrin

I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.

Buzz Aldrin

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

Buzz Aldrin

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

Buzz Aldrin

You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.

Buzz Aldrin

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

Buzz Aldrin

I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.

Buzz Aldrin

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.

Buzz Aldrin

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

Buzz Aldrin

I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

Buzz Aldrin

I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

Buzz Aldrin

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

Buzz Aldrin

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

Buzz Aldrin

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

Buzz Aldrin

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

Buzz Aldrin

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

Buzz Aldrin

Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

Buzz Aldrin

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

Buzz Aldrin