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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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It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.
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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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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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My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
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A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
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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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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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It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
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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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I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
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I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
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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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In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons where we can send continuous numbers of people.
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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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I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
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The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
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We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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I failed music when I was a teenager.
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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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