410 Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

To move forward, what’s required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

This is the LM pilot. I’d like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

We’re number one on the runway.

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn’t a slouch.

Some things just can’t be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people – seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space – buoys up the whole neighborhood.

Let’s not spend resources that we don’t need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let’s not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.

Certainly, I’ve never wanted to live on past achievements.

I don’t believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.