Buzz Aldrin Quotes
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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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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 don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
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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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I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
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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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One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
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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 understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
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I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
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Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.
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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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Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
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There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
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If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
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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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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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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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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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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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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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There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.
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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.