Buzz Aldrin Quotes

Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Over the last eight years, the Obama-Clinton administration has undermined our space program tremendously. That will change. So many good things come out of it, including great jobs. And it will change very quickly under a Trump administration and it will change before it is too late.

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.

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?

I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.

We have neglected our aerospace program, and I am detecting a lot of bipartisan support to continue that mission.

Boeing, LockMart, and hundreds of other companies, large and small, work in the space business, and they also create new techniques and technology; but they'd be nowhere if NASA and the Department of Defense hadn't shown the way by funding the first big rockets and satellites.

There is hardly a facet of an Indian citizen that has not been touched by ISRO's technology.

New Jersey makes important contributions to the space program. We want to make sure it just doesn't happen in Houston.

Because now, you know, it's going to be a number of years yet before we have our own new boosters and new spacecraft to go to our own International Space Station and proceed with all the research that we spent $100 billion putting up there to give us that research capability for the future for people right here on Earth.

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

The Enterprise In Space program is an exciting opportunity to simultaneously advance cutting edge technologies while getting students from around the world engaged in STEAM and space education.

I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.

NASA has made a difference.