It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.

Buzz Aldrin

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

Buzz Aldrin

mars space thinking

No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!

Buzz Aldrin

eye dream sky

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

Buzz Aldrin

poverty childhood space

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

Buzz Aldrin

pants moon men

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

Buzz Aldrin

optimistic opportunity past

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

Buzz Aldrin

moon blue beautiful

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

Buzz Aldrin

horizon want brain

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

Buzz Aldrin

accumulation discipline bravery

History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

Buzz Aldrin

moon math science

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

Buzz Aldrin

innovation generations needs

I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

Buzz Aldrin

shoot-for-the-moon moon might

The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

Buzz Aldrin

finals humans may

Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

Buzz Aldrin

ice clouds thinking

Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

Buzz Aldrin

destiny survival space

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

Buzz Aldrin

space may way

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.

Buzz Aldrin

supplication changed way

The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

Buzz Aldrin

space-flight land spiritual

When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.

Buzz Aldrin

land people thinking

Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.

Buzz Aldrin

worry clouds thinking

The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.

Buzz Aldrin

rocks moon dark