“A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.” NeedsIndividualFamilyTeamAimAspirationTeam WorkSupporting Each Other Author:Buzz Aldrin
“For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.” NeedsPersonsGamesLosesPlansLosingWinnerLoserGame Plan Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.” PeopleNeedsShouldMadeWaitingDecisionEnvironmentRocksReturnSurfaceSettlingExceptionMarsComing BackPilgrimSustainingMayflowerPlymouthPlymouth Rock Author:Buzz Aldrin
“We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?” ThinkingNeedsViewsBuildingPlanetsRedClaimsPlantExperimentsRepeatsWhy NotFlagsPermanence Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.” PeopleNeedsGrowingMoonResourcesExpensiveMarsAstronautColonyBack Again Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.” IfsNeedsJobsHeavySpendingLiftingHeavy Lifting Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.” KnowsNeedsSpaceMoon Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.” WorldNeedsFeelsStillsImpossibleMissionsApolloImpossible Things Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.” WorldNeedsAmericaSpace Author:Buzz Aldrin
“The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.” NeedsShowsBigsTermCompanyIndustryProfitShort TermBig Companies Author:Buzz Aldrin
“When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!” KnowsNeedsSpacecraft Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.” WantNeedsShouldGovernmentMilitaryShould HaveTestsMissionsBackgroundsPilotsAstronautSpecialistsMilitary Experience Author:Buzz Aldrin
“We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.” NeedsNextGenerationsInnovationBoundariesMotivatedTechnologicalNext Generation Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldWellsBigsPurposeSourceMoonEmptyHeavyFuelWhat IfSoleRockets Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.” ThinkingWayNeedsLongHas BeensMovingMoonLong TimeSurfaceMarsRobotsImpatient Author:Buzz Aldrin
“My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.” NeedsHas BeensIndividualUnderstandingChallengesCareersStudyRiskTeamInvolvedActivityDegreesEuropeMy FamilyDoctorsAimFlyingFighterAspirationCombatSupportiveKoreaJetAircraftTeam WorkMitSupporting Each OtherFighter Jets Author:Buzz Aldrin
“There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.” WayNeedsDifferentEarthFoundFunChallengesMovementOceanCarefulAbsenceShipsThoughtfulSatisfyingEnjoyableHeavinessTractionSpaceflightRewarding ExperiencesWeightlessness Author:Buzz Aldrin
“We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.” ThinkingNeedsHumansHappensChallengesEventsPerspectiveAspectCuriosityFlightProductiveTragicRemedyMorbidInvestigating Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentEarthSpacePlansMoonDifferent ThingsStationsVisitingTransportationAsteroids Author:Buzz Aldrin
“NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.” KnowsNeedsImportantLyingForceKnow HowFocusAdvantageAgencyNasaCompetitive AdvantagePioneering Author:Buzz Aldrin
“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.” NeedsEarthMassVehicleMarsInnovativeAccelerate Author:Buzz Aldrin
“The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.” NeedsGovernmentRolesDevelopmentNeededAdvantageExplorationEnginesPrivate Sector Author:Buzz Aldrin
“The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.” IfsNeedsEnergyFiveSquaresVaryVelocity Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.” ThinkingWorldNeedsHumansImportantHelpingInspirationAbleTogetherMovingGivenNationsHuman BeingsMoonIntentionMoving Forward Author:Buzz Aldrin
“There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.” NeedsPersonsChoicesTermResponsibilityAcceptingComfortInvestmentHealthcareShort TermBuzzMaking ChoicesAccepting ResponsibilityHealth And Education Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice-and from that all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. We've become more materialistic. For balance, I think we need to get back to idealism and patriotism, but also be realistic with our monetary goals.” ThinkingNeedsEnoughDreamUsedChoicesGoalAchieveFieldsBalancePursuitUsed To BeGet BackRealisticAmerican DreamIdealismMonetaryMaterialisticPursuit Of Money Author:Buzz Aldrin
“We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.” PeopleNeedsFeelsSpaceCommunicatePilotsEngineersStar Gazing Author:Buzz Aldrin
