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My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.

Buzz Aldrin

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
Air Force Officer
Astronaut
Autobiographer
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Engineer
Fighter Pilot
Science Fiction Writer
Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
Edwin Aldrin Jr.
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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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There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
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Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.
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Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
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In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
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Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
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Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
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I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
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Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
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I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
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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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Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.
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I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.
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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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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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The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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