Buzz Aldrin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Buzz Aldrin on Wise Famous Quotes.
Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!
One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.
We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.
The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
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.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
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 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.
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.
Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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.
We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons ... where we can send continuous numbers of people.
Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.
To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.
The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.
It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.