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It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

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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Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
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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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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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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's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
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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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Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.
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In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
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At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.
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Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
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Unless we are able to commit to a permanent growing settlement [on Mars], then I don't think just going there with humans and coming back is worth doing. The expense of planning to come back is like the people who left Europe to come to America and then to turn around and go back to Europe, it really doesn't make any sense at all.
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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
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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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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.
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I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.
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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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The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
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