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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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This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.
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It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make a very successful use of that training and education.
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Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.
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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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Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
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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 think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.
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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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To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.
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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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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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Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.
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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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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.
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Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
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You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.
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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.
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