People Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.

— Buzz Aldrin

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

— Buzz Aldrin

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

— Buzz Aldrin

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

— Buzz Aldrin

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

— Buzz Aldrin

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

— Buzz Aldrin

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my…

— Buzz Aldrin

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

— Buzz Aldrin

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street…

— Buzz Aldrin

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their…

— Buzz Aldrin

Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on…

— Buzz Aldrin

Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could…

— Buzz Aldrin

Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to…

— Buzz Aldrin

When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world,…

— Buzz Aldrin

People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet…

— Buzz Aldrin

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about…

— Buzz Aldrin

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon…

— Buzz Aldrin

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a…

— Buzz Aldrin

I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then…

— Buzz Aldrin

If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia…

— Buzz Aldrin

When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what…

— Buzz Aldrin

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a…

— Buzz Aldrin

There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and…

— Buzz Aldrin

As time goes by, I'm increasingly impressed by how very special and timely it was that we got the degree of national…

— Buzz Aldrin

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

— Buzz Aldrin

People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.

— Buzz Aldrin

For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that…

— Buzz Aldrin

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space:…

— Buzz Aldrin

There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into…

— Buzz Aldrin

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I…

— Buzz Aldrin

I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours…

— Buzz Aldrin

NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and…

— Buzz Aldrin

History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years,…

— Buzz Aldrin

Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel…

— Buzz Aldrin

I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA)…

— Buzz Aldrin

Unless we are able to commit to a permanent growing settlement [on Mars], then I don't think just going there with humans…

— Buzz Aldrin

The g-forces increased and I wasn't able to continue to hold the camera against the window, so I had to lay it…

— Buzz Aldrin

The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered…

— Buzz Aldrin

When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there,…

— Buzz Aldrin

I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the…

— Buzz Aldrin