Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

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

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

What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?

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

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

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

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

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.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

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

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

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

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

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.