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The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.

Buzz Aldrin

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
Air Force Officer
Astronaut
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Fighter Pilot
Science Fiction Writer
Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
Edwin Aldrin Jr.
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Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
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My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.
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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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It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
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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 been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.
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At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.
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I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
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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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My sister called me Buzzard when I was a baby - she couldn't say Brother so I've been Buzz my whole life.
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The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
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I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
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We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
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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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For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.
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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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As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that adventure travel.
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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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We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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