Top 300 Quotes & Sayings by Buzz Aldrin - Page 3

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.

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.

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

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

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

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

You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.

Tang sucks.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.

As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that... adventure travel.

I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

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.

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

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.

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.

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.

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.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

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

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

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

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

America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.

I am Buzz Lightyear!

I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

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

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