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I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

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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Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.
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I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
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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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I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.
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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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The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
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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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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
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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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Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.
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What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.
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Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
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We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
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My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
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America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
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I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
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When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.
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Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.
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There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.
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