410 Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky.

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.