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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.

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.
Edwin Aldrin Jr.
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I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.
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What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.
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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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History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
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The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.
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I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
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Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
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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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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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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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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
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I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.
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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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To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.
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At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.
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For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.
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The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
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Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
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I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
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