Advancing Quote by Buzz Aldrin

The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.

— David Ignatius

My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with…

— Jim Lovell

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 bringing people…

— Buzz Aldrin

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…

— Buzz Aldrin

The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness…

— Martin Rees

Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon,…

— Buzz Aldrin

I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level…

— Heidi Hammel

By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into…

— Barack Obama

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

— Buzz Aldrin

There was nothing technical or physical stopping us from having moved on from Apollo to a permanent Moonbase, the development of industries in space,…

— Rick Tumlinson

To establish human settlements on the Moon, Mars, or in the free-space between, humans will have to again rapidly adapt. Like early pioneers, there…

— Rick Tumlinson

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's…

— Wernher von Braun