Words matter. These are the best Buzz Aldrin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.
Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!
My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
I inherited depression from my mother’s side of the family.
If you want poets in space, you’ll have to wait.
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.
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.
Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.
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.
I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.
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.
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.
Let’s not spend resources that we don’t need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let’s not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.
I do celebrity ski races all over the world.
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
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.
Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don’t ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other’s individual aims and aspirations.
Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.
What’s aero braking? That’s a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be ‘captured’ by Earth’s gravity.
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.
Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they’ll lessen somewhat.
Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It’s inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we’ll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.
My first biography written in ’73 was not ‘Journey To The Moon.’ It was ‘Return To Earth.’ Because for me, that was the more difficult task – disappointment.
You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.
You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
I’m convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we’re eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don’t come back? What if they stay there?
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.
Save the taxpayer’s money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.
We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
In space, you don’t get that much noise. Noise doesn’t propagate in a vacuum.
Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who’s number one and who’s number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.
The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn’t wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don’t want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.
Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn’t we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?
Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.
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.
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
I wrote ‘Reaching for the Moon’ because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don’t attain it, you can at least reach for it.
There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.
Heavy lifting doesn’t need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.
By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth – scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
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.
I’ve led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
I don’t go through life verbalizing what I feel.
Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.
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.
I still say, ‘Shoot for the moon; you might get there.’
There’s a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
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.
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
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.
I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.
The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars… and then on the surface.
I’m sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they’ll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he’d be a national hero.
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.
It’s real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that’s not very honest.
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers’ airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
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.
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don’t ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
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.
In Mars, we’ve been given a wonderful set of moons… where we can send continuous numbers of people.
I am definitely not rich.
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.
Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.
I inherited depression from my mother’s side of the family.
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.
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.
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.
I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.
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.
I failed music when I was a teenager.
Everyone who’s been in space would, I’m sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
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.
Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.
There’s a need for accepting responsibility – for a person’s life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
I am Buzz Lightyear!
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.
Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
People come up to me and say, ‘It’s too bad the space program got canceled.’ This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.
I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn’t a slouch.
My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that… adventure travel.
I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That’s a stunt! That’s not historic.
I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It’s not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.
Tang sucks.
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America – and in the world.
I am Buzz Lightyear!
NASA’s been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it’s sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.
I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven’t heard him say, ‘Let’s junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.’ He’s not about to say that. That would not be very popular.
Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
Kids, help your parents if they don’t know how to use a smartphone.
Armstrong described the lunar surface as ‘beautiful.’ I thought to myself, ‘It’s not really beautiful. It’s magnificent that we’re here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.’
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
I want to reach a new generation. That’s why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
You can tell I’m not too bashful about some of my feelings.
There’s no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It’s no longer there. We’re descending rather rapidly.
Look at what Silicon Valley has done – the advance of computers.
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That’s a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America – and in the world.
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.
