Top 100 Quotes About Buzz Aldrin
#1. Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin [Buzz] Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.
Richard M. Nixon
#2. I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.
Quincy Jones
#3. Buzz Aldrin said something on the moon about a soft landing before 'stage-aware' Neil Armstrong said, "Houston, the Eagle has landed". People still argue about what the first words were on the moon.
Ray Palla
#4. 2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history ; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
Arthur C. Clarke
#5. Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
Robert Ballard
#6. Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.
Lily Koppel
#7. MYTH506. | There is an American flag on the Moon. According to Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts who was on the Moon, he and Neil Armstrong accidentally placed the original American flag too close to their spacecraft, and when they took off, the flag was blown away.
John Brown
#8. Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.
Charles Duke
#9. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.
Conan O'Brien
#10. I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
Buzz Aldrin
#12. I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.
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#13. For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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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#18. Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
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#19. Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
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#20. I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.
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#21. Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
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#22. To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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#23. You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
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#24. 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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#25. Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future.
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#26. Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
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#27. 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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#28. 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.
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#29. Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
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#30. A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
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#31. 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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#32. History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
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#33. There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.
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#34. Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.
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#35. Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.
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#36. The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.
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#37. 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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#38. 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.
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#39. When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.
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#40. It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.
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#41. Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.
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#42. Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
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#43. Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!
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#44. 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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#45. 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.
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#46. I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.
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#47. 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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#48. There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
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#49. Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
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#50. 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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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.
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#56. Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.
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#57. 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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#58. I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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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#61. The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.
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#62. Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.
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#63. To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.
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#64. The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.
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#65. I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.
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#66. The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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#67. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.
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#68. There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.
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#69. America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
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#70. We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.
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#71. No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky.
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#72. Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.
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#73. My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
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#74. I don't go through life verbalizing what I feel.
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#75. 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.
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#76. Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.
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#77. Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
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#78. With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
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#79. Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.
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#80. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
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#81. Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.
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#82. Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.
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#83. 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.
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#84. I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.
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#85. My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
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#86. We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
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#87. You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.
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#88. I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
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#89. Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.
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#90. 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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#91. Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.
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#92. 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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#93. 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.
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#94. We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
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#95. The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.
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#96. The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
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#97. We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
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#98. I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.
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#99. 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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#100. Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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