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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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I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
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I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.
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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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A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.
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I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.
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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.
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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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There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
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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 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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Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.
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It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make a very successful use of that training and education.
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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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Unless we are able to commit to a permanent growing settlement [on Mars], then I don't think just going there with humans and coming back is worth doing. The expense of planning to come back is like the people who left Europe to come to America and then to turn around and go back to Europe, it really doesn't make any sense at all.
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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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Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
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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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What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.
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Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
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Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
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