“Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.” DifferentHomePlanetsReturnMoonLeavingMissionsCapabilityMarsVentureExploringApolloExpeditionsLengthyColonizing Mars Book:Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration Source: Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration
“Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.” TryingHumansMeanCountryMovingAsksCan DoWonderfulPleaseMoonAssumingExplorationOther CountriesPacksMarsGlobalisationColonizing Mars Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.” EndsDreamAmericaSpacePolicyBrokenMoonProveApolloVisionariesPredecessorsRestoringDead EndsBroken DreamsSpacecraft Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.” LongWould BeAdventureMoonAchievementLong TimeStrategyFlightMotivatedLong Time AgoTourismGreat Achievement Author:Buzz Aldrin
“If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantEyeSoundMoonResourcesThirdsSpendingRussiaMarsConsumingLandingColonizing MarsThird Place Author: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?” KnowsMenPersonsDoeTwoLastsAsksNumbersMoon Author:Buzz Aldrin
“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.” KnowsShouldYearsFirstsHumansWould BeKnow HowReturnMoonInternationalChineseMarsRobotsAstronautAdvancingLandingMoon LandingColonizing Mars Author:Buzz Aldrin
“The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.” PeopleHumansScienceSpiritGivenSpaceCitiesMillionsBloodSeaMankindTearsHonorMoonOceanPerseveranceSpreadSymbolsSweatCrewHuman SpiritApolloFootprintSweat And TearsBlood Sweat And Tears Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.” MenFirstsWalksMoonPantsArmstrong Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.” WantLongGoalMoonUltimateMarsUltimate Goal Author:Buzz Aldrin
“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.” ThinkingFirstsGivenSidesChurchInterestingMoonElementsWineCupsGravityCommunionLiquidChalice Author:Buzz Aldrin
“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.” MenFeelsHas BeensStillsGovernmentThreeNationsSpaceEffortTeamMankindIndustryMoonCuriosityMissionsSymbolsApolloSpace ExplorationInsatiable Book:Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon Source: Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
“I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.” YearsMotherFatherSidesMoonDepressionSuicideCommitted Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.” PeopleWorldBelieveSpaceMoonDon't BelievePairsApollo Author:Buzz Aldrin
“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.” PeopleHumansLongImportantTermSpaceDecisionFutureMoonCommitPermanentLong TermMarsPredictionsRoboticsPrevailingSpace TravelImportant Decisions Author:Buzz Aldrin
“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.” PeopleYearsSelfEarthRememberScienceNextRiskCenturyMoonLowsMathPhysicsCoreNervesFree SocietyOrbitHawksKittiesSelf IndulgentLanguish Author:Buzz Aldrin
“We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there.” PeopleIfsMenShouldUniverseHoursGoneObjectsMoonStructureSevenUnusualYou ChooseMarsPotatoesCometsAsteroids Author:Buzz Aldrin
