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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
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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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Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
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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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It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
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We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.
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We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
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It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.
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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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The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.
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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
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We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?
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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 me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
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History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
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I failed music when I was a teenager.
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You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
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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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