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I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

Buzz Aldrin

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
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Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
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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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Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.
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Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
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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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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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My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.
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There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.
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Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
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