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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.
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This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.
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Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.
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Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
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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 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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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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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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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
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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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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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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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'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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I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
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I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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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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The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.
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Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
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A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.
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