Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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• Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from…
• We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty…
• There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need…
• I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
• Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
• Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
• I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
• I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
• I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction…
• It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
• Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
• Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
• Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible.
• Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
• The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on…
• The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
• The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.
• There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers'…
• Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.
• Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership,…

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