Buzz Aldrin Quotes

Obviously I'd like NASA to follow their charter - the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I'd like to see people someday go to Mars.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

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

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

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

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!

Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.

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.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

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.

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

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.

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

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

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

We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.

I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

In my opinion, future space exploration will require us to inhabit the moon, initially, and later Mars. This is a humongous task for any one nation to carry out.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

Eventually we're going to go to Mars, and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket.