Buzz Aldrin

We're number one on the runway.

— Buzz Aldrin

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

— Buzz Aldrin

Program Alarm, it's a 1202.

— Buzz Aldrin

I am definitely not rich.

— Buzz Aldrin

I failed music when I was a teenager.

— Buzz Aldrin

I am Buzz Lightyear!

— Buzz Aldrin

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

— Buzz Aldrin

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

— Buzz Aldrin

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

— Buzz Aldrin

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

— Buzz Aldrin

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

— Buzz Aldrin

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

— Buzz Aldrin

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

— Buzz Aldrin

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

— Buzz Aldrin

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.

— Buzz Aldrin

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

— Buzz Aldrin

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of…

— 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

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

— Buzz Aldrin

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics…

— Buzz Aldrin

Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

— Buzz Aldrin

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

— Buzz Aldrin

I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the…

— Buzz Aldrin

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly…

— Buzz Aldrin

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that…

— 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

This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may…

— 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

What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back…

— Buzz Aldrin

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was…

— 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

“Seeking help when I was suffering with depression after returning from the Moon was a lifesaver for me—perhaps, literally. Several people in…

— Buzz Aldrin

Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was…

— Buzz Aldrin

My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe,…

— Buzz Aldrin

To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon…

— Buzz Aldrin

“While there, I was somewhat surprised to learn that our next foray into space would include an orbiter with wings and with…

— Buzz Aldrin

We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape…

— 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

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

— Buzz Aldrin

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

— Buzz Aldrin