Buzz Aldrin Quotes

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

Up in space we don't have a huge wardrobe.

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.

What is true and what most folks think is that there is no sound in space. From almost all recollections, I would agree.

When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'

A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we're ever likely to do that is by going into space.

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.

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

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

I actually want to go up into space.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.

The future of the human face is space exploration.