Buzz Aldrin Quotes

We're not up here visiting space, we're up here living in space.

If I could live in space, I would definitely do that.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

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

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon. Outside the gravitational field of Earth, we could launch robotic spacecraft to other destinations in our solar system.

The International Space Station is a great place to live for a year.

The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.

The ride to orbit was impressive, as it always is. But once I got on board the space station, it really felt like I was visiting an old home; it felt very comfortable.

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

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

Tiangong 1, our home in space, was comfortable and pleasant.

It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.

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.

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

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

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.