Buzz Aldrin Quotes

I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

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

Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.

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

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.

Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.

We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.

Climate has been changing for billions of years.

We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

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.

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

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

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

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

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.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

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

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

'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.

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

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

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

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

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

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

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

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

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

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

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

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

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

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

I am definitely not rich.

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

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.

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

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.

The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.

It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

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

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

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.