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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'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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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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My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
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History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
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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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As time goes by, I'm increasingly impressed by how very special and timely it was that we got the degree of national commitment needed to put people on the Moon. For the first time, this nation was united in trying to develop an interplanetary capability. We've been trying to repeat that situation ever since.
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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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I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
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I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.
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A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.
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The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
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As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
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'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
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The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.
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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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The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
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Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
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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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Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
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