Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

“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 col...”

“Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.”

“There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'”

“In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.”

“By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.”

“Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.”

“There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.”

“You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.”

“It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.”

“I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative p...”

“'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.”

“Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned int...”

“Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.”

“One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.”

“What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.”

“Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to ...”

“Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.”

“If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.”

“I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involv...”

“If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.”