Buzz Aldrin Quotes - Page 9

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.

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

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

People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.

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

Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

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

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.

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.