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There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Buzz Aldrin

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
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Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
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For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
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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.
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Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
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My sister called me Buzzard when I was a baby - she couldn't say Brother so I've been Buzz my whole life.
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The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.
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Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
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History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
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Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
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Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
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