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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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Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!
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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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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 big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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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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For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
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Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
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No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!
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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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There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.
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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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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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We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?
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I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.
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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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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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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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Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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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 moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.
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