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Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

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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Mars
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Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
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It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
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In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons where we can send continuous numbers of people.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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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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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.
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To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.
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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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I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.
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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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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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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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Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.
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You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.
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The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.
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I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
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When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.
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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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'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
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Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
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