Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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• For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
• We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
• Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of…
• Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and…
• Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.
• Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface…
• Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.
• 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…
• You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at…
• One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
• As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded…
• 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…
• Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And…
• 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…
• Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
• Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm…
• When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another…
• With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
• The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
• Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.

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