Buzz Aldrin
American former astronaut, engineer and fighter
Lived from: 1930 -
Category: Scientists
Born: 20 january 1930
Quotes 81 till 100 of 137.
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My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
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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.
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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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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?
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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.
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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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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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Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
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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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Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
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Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
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The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.
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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.
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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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