Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
Buzz AldrinI didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
Buzz AldrinWe really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.
Buzz Aldrin