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Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

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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Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
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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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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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I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
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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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By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
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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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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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I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.
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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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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
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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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I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.
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The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
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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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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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We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
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By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
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When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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