Buzz Aldrin Quotes
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As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
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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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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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There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.
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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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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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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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As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
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I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'
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I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.
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I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
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I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.
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Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.
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A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
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I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
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When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!
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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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Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.
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Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
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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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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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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
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You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.