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

Buzz Aldrin

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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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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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As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
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They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.
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I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
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I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.
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Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
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As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that adventure travel.
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I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.
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Mars has a bit of air pressure maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.
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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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Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
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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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When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
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We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
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We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.
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Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.
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We're number one on the runway.
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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 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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