Agenda Quote by Buzz Aldrin

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev…

— Buzz Aldrin

When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo-op that…

— Rick Tumlinson

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

President Bush announced a major new plan for the United States to put a man on the moon, which would be a really big…

— Jay Leno

We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war…

— Charles Duke

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was…

— Buzz Aldrin

NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As time goes by, I'm increasingly impressed by how very special and timely it was that we got the degree of national commitment needed…

— Buzz Aldrin

When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there.

— Mitt Romney

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…

— Buzz Aldrin