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America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

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.
Mars
Moon
Beyond
America
Take
Men

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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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They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.
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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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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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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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We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
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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.
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The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.
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When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
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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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I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.
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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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I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
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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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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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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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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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Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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