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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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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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I failed music when I was a teenager.
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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
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Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
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Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
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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 Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
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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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A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
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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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The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
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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.
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NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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