410 Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

I don’t think we’re going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

We can’t start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don’t they stay there on Mars?

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, ‘I’m going to do that and put people into orbit’ is a real leap.

My sister called me “Buzzard” when I was a baby – she couldn’t say “Brother” so I’ve been Buzz my whole life.

If you want poets in space, you’ll have to wait.

I don’t watch ‘American Idol,’ but I wouldn’t call it ‘undignified.’

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we’ve downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.

You can tell I’m not too bashful about some of my feelings.