Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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Buzz Aldrin

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : January 20, 1930

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.

Buzz Aldrin

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

Buzz Aldrin

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

Buzz Aldrin

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

Buzz Aldrin

I don't go through life verbalizing what I feel.

Buzz Aldrin

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

Buzz Aldrin

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.

Buzz Aldrin

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

Buzz Aldrin

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

Buzz Aldrin

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Buzz Aldrin

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

Buzz Aldrin

To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.

Buzz Aldrin

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

Buzz Aldrin

It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

Buzz Aldrin

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

Buzz Aldrin

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

Buzz Aldrin

When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

Buzz Aldrin

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

Buzz Aldrin

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Buzz Aldrin

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

Buzz Aldrin