Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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

A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

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.

The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.

Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

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.

Program Alarm, it's a 1202.

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

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.

We're number one on the runway.

Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.

There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.

I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.

The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.

If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline

Humanity is destined to explore, settle, and expand outward into the universe.

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

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.

There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

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