Buzz Aldrin Quotes
-
I failed music when I was a teenager.
-
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
-
'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.
-
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
-
People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.
-
My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.
-
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
-
My sister called me "Buzzard" when I was a baby - she couldn't say "Brother" so I've been Buzz my whole life.
-
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.
-
Fear, to people who have been in aviation and combat (such as) fighter pilots ... is something you learn how to deal with and set aside, ... It's a very disabling emotion. You want to be alert as you possibly can.
-
Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.
-
There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.
-
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.
-
A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
-
Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
-
I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
-
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.
-
I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
-
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
-
We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
-
I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.