Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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.

One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I'm even more against it now, that whole waste of money.

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

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

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

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

I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early '70s was going to be an astronaut.

It is practically certain that sometime during 1958, either the Russians or we, and most likely both, are going to shoot a rocket to the moon.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.