Buzz Aldrin Quotes
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Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.
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Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We've got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.
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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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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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My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
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We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.
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I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.
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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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Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.
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As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
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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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I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.
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'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
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There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.
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Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.
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I failed music when I was a teenager.
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I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
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Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
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NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.
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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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I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.