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Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

Buzz Aldrin

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
Air Force Officer
Astronaut
Autobiographer
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Fighter Pilot
Science Fiction Writer
Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
Edwin Aldrin Jr.
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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
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Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.
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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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Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
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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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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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Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
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What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.
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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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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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When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.
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A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
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The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
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I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
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We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
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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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