Buzz Aldrin Quotes

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!

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, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.

For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.

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 who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

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 Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

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

We're number one on the runway.

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

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

Climate has been changing for billions of years.

The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there.

At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.

A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

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

Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.