Buzz Aldrin Quotes

We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

As we visit Mars multiple times, we will build up infrastructure on the surface to expand the capabilities and reach of humans on Mars.

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.

In my opinion, future space exploration will require us to inhabit the moon, initially, and later Mars. This is a humongous task for any one nation to carry out.

I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future.

NASA should start thinking about this planet.

There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

We are going to Mars. My life will not be complete until an astronaut sets foot on the red dust of Mars.

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

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.

It is time to declare that the goal of the United States in space is the settlement of the solar system, from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars.

I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is as beautiful, in its own way, as the Earth was thousands of years ago.