Top 200 Buzz Aldrin Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You can tell I’m not too bashful about some of my feelings.”

— Buzz Aldrin

152. “Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it’s beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.”

— Buzz Aldrin

153. “There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that’s why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you’d interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.”

— Buzz Aldrin

154. “Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.”

— Buzz Aldrin

155. “I think it’s inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.”

— Buzz Aldrin

156. “In Mars, we’ve been given a wonderful set of moons where we can send continuous numbers of people.”

— Buzz Aldrin

157. “The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.”

— Buzz Aldrin

158. “Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.”

— Buzz Aldrin

159. “There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn’t do that again.”

— Buzz Aldrin

160. “They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.”

— Buzz Aldrin

161. “You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.”

— Buzz Aldrin

162. “I do celebrity ski races all over the world.”

— Buzz Aldrin

163. “I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.”

— Buzz Aldrin

164. “Once you’ve been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.”

— Buzz Aldrin

165. “There’s no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.”

— Buzz Aldrin

166. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin

167. “America’s can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country’s ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.”

— Buzz Aldrin

168. “People communicate in Twittering ways. I’ve learned how to do that.”

— Buzz Aldrin

169. “History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.”

— Buzz Aldrin

170. “Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it’s Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.”

— Buzz Aldrin

171. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin

172. “When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.”

— Buzz Aldrin

173. “The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that’s 25 times the energy.”

— Buzz Aldrin

174. “When you’re in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn’t touch!”

— Buzz Aldrin

175. “My first biography written in ’73 was not ‘Journey To The Moon.’ It was ‘Return To Earth.’ Because for me, that was the more difficult task – disappointment.”

— Buzz Aldrin

176. “I have no doubt that humans will go to Mars. And I feel that America has led so many things in space – we have invested so much, and we have a lot to gain – that America could and should be the nation that should lead the settlement of Mars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

177. “Climate has been changing for billions of years.”

— Buzz Aldrin

178. “I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.”

— Buzz Aldrin

179. “Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.”

— Buzz Aldrin

180. “Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn’t as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who’s been to the Moon.”

— Buzz Aldrin

181. “The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy’s speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.”

— Buzz Aldrin

182. “Everyone who’s been in space would, I’m sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.”

— Buzz Aldrin

183. “I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.”

— Buzz Aldrin

184. “As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that adventure travel.”

— Buzz Aldrin

185. “There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.”

— Buzz Aldrin

186. “My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we’ve made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.”

— Buzz Aldrin

187. “For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.”

— Buzz Aldrin

188. “When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.”

— Buzz Aldrin

189. “Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.”

— Buzz Aldrin

190. “You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” What he meant by that, of course, is that the people with whom you repeatedly choose to associate will have an enormous impact on you, either positively or negatively.”

— Buzz Aldrin

191. “I’m not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.”

— Buzz Aldrin

192. “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.”

— Buzz Aldrin

193. “It’s not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I’m just a little skeptical that that’s going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.”

— Buzz Aldrin

194. “I want to reach a new generation. That’s why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.”

— Buzz Aldrin

195. “During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.”

— Buzz Aldrin

196. “I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.”

— Buzz Aldrin

197. “Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.”

— Buzz Aldrin

198. “Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future.”

— Buzz Aldrin

199. “In space, you don’t get that much noise. Noise doesn’t propagate in a vacuum.”

— Buzz Aldrin

200. “All work is noble, if it is legal and ethical, so do your best, whether you are first, second, or last. Never lose an opportunity, a job, an election, a competition, or anything else because you were too lazy to give it your best effort. Certainly, you need rest and recreation, but keep those in balance with hard work. Remember, while you are partying, someone else is working hard to succeed. It’s okay to be second, as long as you do the absolute best you can do.”

— Buzz Aldrin