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Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

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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You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
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The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
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Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
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The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
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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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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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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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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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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
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My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
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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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It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.
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I still say, 'Shoot for the moon you might get there.'
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It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
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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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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
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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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We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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