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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.
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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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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 time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
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Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
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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 feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.
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As time goes by, I'm increasingly impressed by how very special and timely it was that we got the degree of national commitment needed to put people on the Moon. For the first time, this nation was united in trying to develop an interplanetary capability. We've been trying to repeat that situation ever since.
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You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
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You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.
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I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
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I failed music when I was a teenager.
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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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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
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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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Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
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My sister called me Buzzard when I was a baby - she couldn't say Brother so I've been Buzz my whole life.
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The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.
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Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
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