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My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.

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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As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that adventure travel.
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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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Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.
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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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I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.
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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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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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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'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
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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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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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It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
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Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!
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You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
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Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
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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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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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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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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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