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For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

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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Future
Science
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Primarily
Engineering
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Math

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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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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
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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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Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
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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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It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
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