Buzz Aldrin Quotes
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History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
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NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
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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.
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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.
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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.
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Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
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This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
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The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.
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Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.
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Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future.
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Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.
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In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
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My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
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Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
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Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.
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I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not put together detailed jobs of people outside. I believe it could have been improved. But it was very successful for what it was.
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Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.
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For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.
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It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
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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.
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One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
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We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.