Buzz Aldrin Quotes

People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.

It's not a matter of if we're going to go to Mars, it's a matter of when.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.

There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.

Will we have a colony on Mars? I think so.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

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

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

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

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.

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

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

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

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.

For the new century, back to the moon, back to the future and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars.

I think we know how to do Mars.

I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.