Buzz Aldrin Quotes

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

We have neglected our aerospace program, and I am detecting a lot of bipartisan support to continue that mission.

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

It's very sad that there's going to be a hiatus in manned space flight from the U.S. The Shuttle was a fantastic, hugely complex vehicle. It was inevitable it would come to an end, but this is the opportunity for the commercial world to get involved. As the Shuttle era ends, another window of opportunity opens.

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

I don't know all the future steps, but I know one of them: we need to build a low-cost, highly operable, reusable launch vehicle. No matter which path we take, it has to include that gate, and so that's why that's Blue Origin's mission.

All the best to SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, and, yes, the Progress teams, who are all working on their own solutions to open the frontier along with Boeing and the rest of the fliers trying to fly, all of whom I know personally share the dream. This isn't their fault; they just want to make things fly.

I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.

In addition to the vehicles currently known, the holy grail of commercial spaceflight remains a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable spaceplane.

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.

After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.

I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, either I achieved success by being an astronaut, or if I don't get picked, I'm not successful. I loved my career as a pilot, and it was a bonus to be selected as an astronaut.

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

I've always thought of Boeing as the premier aerospace company in the world, so as I was coming up through school, it was the company I aspired to work for.