It concerns me that we havent been able to keep the momentum going. Were into one program or another. Buzz Aldrin More Quotes by Buzz Aldrin More Quotes From Buzz Aldrin Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was? Buzz Aldrin moonmentwo The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward. Buzz Aldrin rockshomeeurope All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero. Buzz Aldrin chinesemoonhero 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. Buzz Aldrin marsuniquepurpose 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. Buzz Aldrin moonambitionbelieve My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became. Buzz Aldrin wifeblondelittles Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars. Buzz Aldrin moongoallong The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'. Buzz Aldrin marslandearth Program Alarm, it's a 1202. Buzz Aldrin apolloprogramalarms We're number one on the runway. Buzz Aldrin runwayapollonumbers This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way. Buzz Aldrin opportunitygivingpast Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people. Buzz Aldrin futurespacemoon It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do. Buzz Aldrin addictiondrugchallenges I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were. Buzz Aldrin spacemoonbelieve This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown. Buzz Aldrin teammoonmen I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements. Buzz Aldrin winemoonthinking I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there? Buzz Aldrin what-ifrunningpeople It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories. Buzz Aldrin impactmoonmemories I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics. Buzz Aldrin winereadingreligious What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars. Buzz Aldrin marsmoonthinking
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