Buzz Aldrin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Drive over to the nearest airport, and enroll in flight classes. You will experience the joy of freedom in the air above, as you study the mechanics of how this is made possible by understanding the construction, the laws of motion, the air that can provide lift when it is moved by propulsion through the air, and stay above the gravity pulling the airplane back down to earth.
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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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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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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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In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
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The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.
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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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I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.
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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.
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Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.
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Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.
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Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.
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Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit.
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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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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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There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
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The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
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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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Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.