Top 200 Buzz Aldrin Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America – and in the world.”

— Buzz Aldrin

52. “As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.”

— Buzz Aldrin

53. “I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn’t a slouch.”

— Buzz Aldrin

54. “Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.”

— Buzz Aldrin

55. “I don’t think we’re going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.”

— Buzz Aldrin

56. “I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.”

— Buzz Aldrin

57. “With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.”

— Buzz Aldrin

58. “The view from space is like having a globe on your desk – it’s a broadening experience.”

— Buzz Aldrin

59. “There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.”

— Buzz Aldrin

60. “We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.”

— Buzz Aldrin

61. “Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.”

— Buzz Aldrin

62. “I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I’m a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.”

— Buzz Aldrin

63. “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?”

— Buzz Aldrin

64. “Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.”

— Buzz Aldrin

65. “For every winner, there’s a loser. And that person didn’t really need to lose. They just didn’t understand the game plan.”

— Buzz Aldrin

66. “The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

67. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin

68. “From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.”

— Buzz Aldrin

69. “I’ve been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.”

— Buzz Aldrin

70. “The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.”

— Buzz Aldrin

71. “I’m sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing, which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.”

— Buzz Aldrin

72. “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

73. “I didn’t start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I’m proficiently conservative.”

— Buzz Aldrin

74. “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

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

— Buzz Aldrin

76. “Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.”

— Buzz Aldrin

77. “To move forward, what’s required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.”

— Buzz Aldrin

78. “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

79. “I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.”

— Buzz Aldrin

80. “There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.”

— Buzz Aldrin

81. “I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the ’70s and ’80s.”

— Buzz Aldrin

82. “I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet – a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.”

— Buzz Aldrin

83. “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

84. “Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they’ll lessen somewhat.”

— Buzz Aldrin

85. “There’s no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It’s no longer there. We’re descending rather rapidly.”

— Buzz Aldrin

86. “Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we’re going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.”

— Buzz Aldrin

87. “I know: If you’re looking down at Earth, you’re looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.”

— Buzz Aldrin

88. “Heavy lifting doesn’t need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.”

— Buzz Aldrin

89. “Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.”

— Buzz Aldrin

90. “Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.”

— Buzz Aldrin

91. “As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.”

— Buzz Aldrin

92. “The feeling of reduced gravity and the limitations of the space suit resulted in a slow-motion movement. Perhaps not too far from a trampoline, but without the springiness and instability.”

— Buzz Aldrin

93. “My sister called me “Buzzard” when I was a baby – she couldn’t say “Brother” so I’ve been Buzz my whole life.”

— Buzz Aldrin

94. “If you want poets in space, you’ll have to wait.”

— Buzz Aldrin

95. “Look at what Silicon Valley has done – the advance of computers.”

— Buzz Aldrin

96. “A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It’s paralyzing.”

— Buzz Aldrin

97. “I failed music when I was a teenager.”

— Buzz Aldrin

98. “I am definitely not rich.”

— Buzz Aldrin

99. “I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.”

— Buzz Aldrin

100. “Save the taxpayer’s money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.”

— Buzz Aldrin