Buzz Aldrin Quotes

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

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.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it. I just can't stop reading about it or watching videos about it or listening to TED Talks about it.

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

NASA's charter is to give Americans the means to get into the wild, black yonder, beyond even the grasp of the federal government that funded it.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.

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

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.