Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

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 came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

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.

The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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

We must become a space-faring nation.

Not only shall we be able to cruise in space, …

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

There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.

2012 will be seen as the beginning of the frontier era in space.

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.

I am very inspired by the exploration of space via private means.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

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

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

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