Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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• All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with…
• Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place…
• 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…
• Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into…
• 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…
• Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of…
• Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead…
• I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from…
• I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this…
• I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the…
• 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…
• 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…
• If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye…
• Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life…
• Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does…
• The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some…
• 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,…
• To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we…
• If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
• The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What…

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