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Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

Buzz Aldrin

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
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Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
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