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We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

Buzz Aldrin

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
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Fighter Pilot
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Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
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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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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.
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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'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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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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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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There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
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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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The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.
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The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.
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What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
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I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.
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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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There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.
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I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.
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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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America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
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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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I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.
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I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.
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