410 Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

There’s no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

Once you’ve been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

I think it’s inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

I want to reach a new generation. That’s why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.

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

When you’re in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn’t touch!

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we’ve made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

My first biography written in ’73 was not ‘Journey To The Moon.’ It was ‘Return To Earth.’ Because for me, that was the more difficult task – disappointment.

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy’s speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.