Top 200 Buzz Aldrin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Mars is there, waiting to be reached.”

— Buzz Aldrin

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2. “Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.”

— Buzz Aldrin

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3. “No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky.”

— Buzz Aldrin

4. “I still say, ‘Shoot for the moon; you might get there.’”

— Buzz Aldrin

5. “A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other’s individual aims and aspirations.”

— Buzz Aldrin

6. “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

7. “If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.”

— Buzz Aldrin

8. “I wrote ‘Reaching for the Moon’ because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don’t attain it, you can at least reach for it.”

— Buzz Aldrin

9. “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

10. “To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.”

— Buzz Aldrin

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

— Buzz Aldrin

12. “Program Alarm, it’s a 1202.”

— Buzz Aldrin

13. “We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.”

— Buzz Aldrin

14. “We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.”

— Buzz Aldrin

15. “Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.”

— Buzz Aldrin

16. “Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.”

— Buzz Aldrin

17. “Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.”

— Buzz Aldrin

18. “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

19. “By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth – scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.”

— Buzz Aldrin

20. “The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That’s behind me now.”

— Buzz Aldrin

21. “Don’t waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.”

— Buzz Aldrin

22. “For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.”

— Buzz Aldrin

23. “I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.”

— Buzz Aldrin

24. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin

25. “The big companies are the private industry. But they’re faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.”

— Buzz Aldrin

26. “Kids, help your parents if they don’t know how to use a smartphone.”

— Buzz Aldrin

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

— Buzz Aldrin

28. “We’re number one on the runway.”

— Buzz Aldrin

29. “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

30. “I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.”

— Buzz Aldrin

31. “Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.”

— Buzz Aldrin

32. “There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn’t have spread across the Earth the way we have. There’s a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

33. “Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

34. “When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.”

— Buzz Aldrin

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

— Buzz Aldrin

36. “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

37. “American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.”

— Buzz Aldrin

38. “The universe is the way it is. It’s not going to be changed by supplications.”

— Buzz Aldrin

39. “Some things just can’t be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.”

— Buzz Aldrin

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

— Buzz Aldrin

41. “We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don’t have a very good model for that at all.”

— Buzz Aldrin

42. “America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.”

— Buzz Aldrin

43. “We can’t start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.”

— Buzz Aldrin

44. “Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.”

— Buzz Aldrin

45. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin

46. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin

47. “I don’t believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.”

— Buzz Aldrin

48. “The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.”

— Buzz Aldrin

49. “What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don’t they stay there on Mars?”

— Buzz Aldrin

50. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin