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It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
Air Force Officer
Astronaut
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Engineer
Fighter Pilot
Science Fiction Writer
Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
Edwin Aldrin Jr.
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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
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The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.
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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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I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.
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You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
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History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
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No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!
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For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
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Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
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I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
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My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
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