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I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
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Montclair Township
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.
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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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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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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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We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
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I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
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Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.
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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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For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.
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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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As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
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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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I failed music when I was a teenager.
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'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
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The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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I still say, 'Shoot for the moon you might get there.'
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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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Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.
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The feeling of reduced gravity and the limitations of the space suit resulted in a slow-motion movement. Perhaps not too far from a trampoline, but without the springiness and instability.
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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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No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!
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