Buzz Aldrin
American former astronaut, engineer and fighter
Lived from: 1930 -
Category: Scientists
Born: 20 january 1930
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The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.
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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.
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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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The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
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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.
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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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There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
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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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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 were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
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To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
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To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
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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.
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Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.
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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.
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