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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 realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
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Program Alarm, it's a 1202.
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My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.
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Mars has a bit of air pressure maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.
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It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.
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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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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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Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
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It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
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For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.
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As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
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The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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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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Climate has been changing for billions of years.
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Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
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Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
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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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There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.
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