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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
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Engineer
Fighter Pilot
Science Fiction Writer
Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
Edwin Aldrin Jr.
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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.
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Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
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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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I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.
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Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
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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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Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
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We're number one on the runway.
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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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Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
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My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
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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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Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
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I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
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It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
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Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
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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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