Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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Buzz Aldrin

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : January 20, 1930

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Buzz Aldrin

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

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I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.

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Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

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Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.

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I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

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People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.

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During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

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I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.

Buzz Aldrin

A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.

Buzz Aldrin

Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

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America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.

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My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.

Buzz Aldrin

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

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There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

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People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.

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I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

Buzz Aldrin

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

Buzz Aldrin