Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin

"We should've asked China to be a portion of the space station. We should've worked out ways that we can... just give away the technology that we have that puts things up into space, with cooperation up above the atmosphere that's needed to help each other."
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"We should've asked China to be a portion of the space station. We should've worked out ways that we can... just give away the technology that we have that puts things up into space, with cooperation up above the atmosphere that's needed to help each other."
Buzz Aldrin
"There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly."
Buzz Aldrin
"Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people."
Buzz Aldrin
"Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there."
Buzz Aldrin
"To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security."
Buzz Aldrin
"We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space."
Buzz Aldrin
"I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime."
Buzz Aldrin
"Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market."
Buzz Aldrin
"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."
Buzz Aldrin
"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."
Buzz Aldrin
"By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface."
Buzz Aldrin
"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."
Buzz Aldrin
"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."
Buzz Aldrin
"My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon."
Buzz Aldrin
"If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger."
Buzz Aldrin
"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?"
Buzz Aldrin
"If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait."
Buzz Aldrin
"As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that... adventure travel."
Buzz Aldrin
"Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience."
Buzz Aldrin
"Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space."
Buzz Aldrin
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