Buzz Aldrin Quotes

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

I always knew I'd go to space.

Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.

If you're in space on the way to Mars, and a conflict develops... you can't turn around and go back, because Earth is already gone on its orbit.

Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all those folks go-that's three-eighths of an inch above a schoolroom globe, just FYI. That's not very far from Earth. Yes, you are off Earth, but you're not really going anywhere yet. The moon was the only real destination.

I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound of anything into near earth orbit. That is your weight in gold. It costs about $100,000 a pound to put you on the moon. And it costs $1,000,000 a pound to put you on Mars.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.

President Bush wants to build a space station on the moon. And from the moon, he wants to launch people to Mars. You know what this means. He's been drinking again.

The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

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 watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.