Buzz Aldrin Quotes

NASA has made a difference.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

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

There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

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

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Throughout Johnson Space Center's history, contributions to STEM innovation and discoveries has been both through new technologies developed to advance human spaceflight and through educating, inspiring, and hiring students in STEM fields.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.