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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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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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I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.
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The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.
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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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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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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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I failed music when I was a teenager.
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Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
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The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.
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The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
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When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
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Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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Mars has a bit of air pressure maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.
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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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Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.
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The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
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I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
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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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