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I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
Buzz Aldrin
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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
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Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
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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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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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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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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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Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
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You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.
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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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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
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Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
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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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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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There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.
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We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
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We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.
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For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
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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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My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
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