Buzz Aldrin Quotes
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In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.
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I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
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I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
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With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
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A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
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Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.
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The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream.
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Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
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As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a fighter pilot, I observed the selection of the Mercury astronauts. All this was fascinating, but I really didn't think I would ever be a part of it. It was only when my good friend Ed White was selected as a Gemini astronaut that I decided to join NASA as part of the Apollo program.
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The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
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I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'
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It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
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I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.
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Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.
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This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.
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I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
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Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.
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As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
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We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.
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I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel does not lie with government agencies -- NASA is still obsessed with the idea that the primary purpose of the space program is science -- but real progress will come from private companies competing to provide the ultimate adventure ride, and NASA will receive the trickle-down benefits.