410 Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

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.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. 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 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.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.