Top 200 Buzz Aldrin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I am definitely not rich.”

— Buzz Aldrin

102. “We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.”

— Buzz Aldrin

103. “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

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

— Buzz Aldrin

105. “Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.”

— Buzz Aldrin

106. “I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

107. “I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.”

— Buzz Aldrin

108. “When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we’ve downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.”

— Buzz Aldrin

109. “A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.”

— Buzz Aldrin

110. “Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.”

— Buzz Aldrin

111. “Certainly, I’ve never wanted to live on past achievements.”

— Buzz Aldrin

112. “Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

113. “I’m convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we’re eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don’t come back? What if they stay there?”

— Buzz Aldrin

114. “Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.”

— Buzz Aldrin

115. “Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn’t wave his own flag.”

— Buzz Aldrin

116. “If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I’m there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time – maybe that’s the definition of space.”

— Buzz Aldrin

117. “America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars – and beyond.”

— Buzz Aldrin

118. “Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.”

— Buzz Aldrin

119. “What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

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

— Buzz Aldrin

121. “Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people – seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space – buoys up the whole neighborhood.”

— Buzz Aldrin

122. “I’m in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.”

— Buzz Aldrin

123. “My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.”

— Buzz Aldrin

124. “It’s been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.”

— Buzz Aldrin

125. “Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.”

— Buzz Aldrin

126. “There’s no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons – and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.”

— Buzz Aldrin

127. “I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.”

— Buzz Aldrin

128. “I’m sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

129. “At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.”

— Buzz Aldrin

130. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin

131. “I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, ‘When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?’ I’ve heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.”

— Buzz Aldrin

132. “My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. “The business is Buzz!” she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.”

— Buzz Aldrin

133. “The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.”

— Buzz Aldrin

134. “It’s time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.”

— Buzz Aldrin

135. “To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.”

— Buzz Aldrin

136. “I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.”

— Buzz Aldrin

137. “It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make a very successful use of that training and education.”

— Buzz Aldrin

138. “I inherited depression from my mother’s side of the family.”

— Buzz Aldrin

139. “The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn’t wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don’t want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.”

— Buzz Aldrin

140. “Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.”

— Buzz Aldrin

141. “I don’t watch ‘American Idol,’ but I wouldn’t call it ‘undignified.’”

— Buzz Aldrin

142. “My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.”

— Buzz Aldrin

143. “Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century’s exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.”

— Buzz Aldrin

144. “I don’t go through life verbalizing what I feel.”

— Buzz Aldrin

145. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin

146. “Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.”

— Buzz Aldrin

147. “Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That’s a stunt! That’s not historic.”

— Buzz Aldrin

148. “The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

149. “When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, ‘I’m going to do that and put people into orbit’ is a real leap.”

— Buzz Aldrin

150. “My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.”

— Buzz Aldrin