Buzz Aldrin

Astronaut

1930-01-20

Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

• Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline

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• Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline

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• The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

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• There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

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• There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'

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• Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

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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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• 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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• 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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• We should've asked China to be a portion of the space station. We should've worked out ways that we can... just give away the technology that we have that puts things up into space, with cooperation up above the atmosphere that's needed to help each other.

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• Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

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• A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.

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• Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

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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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• When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

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• I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.

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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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• I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

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• Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

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• Tang sucks.

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