410 Quotes by Buzz Aldrin


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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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    On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. It was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft. So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And i feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels.

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

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