Buzz Aldrin Quotes

I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there.

Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return mission to the moon. However, the last few missions of the Apollo Program were canceled for budgetary reasons. So I lost my second opportunity to land on the moon.

If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.

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

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

In 2025, don't be surprised if a Chinese flag is placed on the moon.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon.

I can remember walking on the moon.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

We got to the moon.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.