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Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

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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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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My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
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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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I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.
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My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
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For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
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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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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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I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.
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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 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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There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.
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The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.
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Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
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You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
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