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Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

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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Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
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Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
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The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
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I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
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Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
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I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
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Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.
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I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.
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Climate has been changing for billions of years.
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Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
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Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.
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By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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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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Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
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I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
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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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Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
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