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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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.
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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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My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.
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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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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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The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
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For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.
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I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.
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We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
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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 tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.
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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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I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
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Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
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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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I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.
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There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.
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Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.
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I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
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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.