Buzz Aldrin Quotes

The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.

I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.

Houston, we have a problem.

It is practically certain that sometime during 1958, either the Russians or we, and most likely both, are going to shoot a rocket to the moon.

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

For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

The first movie I did that was inspired by true events was 'Apollo 13.'

The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

I was only in second grade when the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. The night of his launch - April 12, 1961 - I went out onto the front porch and stared up at the stars, trying to see his capsule passing overhead. Like millions of others, I was enthralled by the idea of space exploration and have been ever since.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

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.

One of the great things about the space program is it's super well-documented.

I worked on all of the Apollo manned missions and a couple of Apollo unmanned missions.

I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life.

Cassini was an international undertaking, led by NASA and the European Space Agency and designed to be, in every dimension, a dramatic advance over Voyager. At the size of a school bus, it was bigger than Voyager and outfitted with the most sophisticated scientific instruments ever carried into the outer solar system.

Fifty years after humans landed on the moon for the first time, America has driven a golden spike on the trail to new space exploration feats through the work of our commercial partner SpaceX and all of the dedicated and talented flight controllers at NASA and our international partners.

Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I knew I wanted to be part of the American space program. And that's exactly what I did.

Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.