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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.

Buzz Aldrin

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
Air Force Officer
Astronaut
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Fighter Pilot
Science Fiction Writer
Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
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Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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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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I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.
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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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No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!
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By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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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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