Buzz Aldrin Quotes

Buzz Aldrin's page feels inspirational and forward-looking, pondering the cosmos, future missions and humanity's place among the stars.

21 quotes

  1. The eagle has landed!

    #1 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

  2. Give us a reading on the 1202 program alarm.

  3. Magnificent desolation.

  4. Mickey transcends being just a character; he's a symbol of the magnitude of the entire Disney dynasty. He could have faded with time, but he has been appropriately maintained. That Disney has been able to keep the integrity of its legend, Mickey, throughout all these generations, is a real achievement.

  5. There was something out there, close enough to be observed, and what could it be?

  6. Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

  7. I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

  8. I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

  9. You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

  10. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

  11. In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

  12. 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.

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

  14. 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.

  15. Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

  16. 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.

  17. Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

  18. I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

  19. America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

  20. I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

  21. 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.