Buzz Aldrin Quotes About Moon

Quotes about: Moon

• 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

  Math, Science, Moon

• We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Men, People

• 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

  Beautiful, Moon, Blue

• I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Might, Shoot For The Moon

• I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Religious, Reading, Wine

• 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

  Wine, Moon, Thinking

  "The Moon Communion Of Buzz Aldrin That NASA Didn’t Want To Broadcast". Article by Yasmine Hafiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

• I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Moon, Achievement

• The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Perseverance, Ocean, Science

• Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours, and you know what they represent. Having left the water planet, with all that water brings to Earth in terms of colour and abudance life, the absence of water and atmosphere on the desolate surface of the Moon gives rise to a stark contrast.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Giving, Water

• Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Future, Moon, Space

  FaceBook post by Buzz Aldrin from Nov 22, 2009

• 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

  Moon, Done, Favors

• Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Home, Moon, Leaving

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

• Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Men, Pants

• The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Believe, Ambition, Moon

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

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Russia, Ice

• 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

  Moon, Would Be, Saws

  "Buzz Aldrin: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

• 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

  Moon, Mars, Astronaut

  "Buzz Aldrin: America Needs to Set its Sights on Mars" by Robert Montenegro, bigthink.com.

• 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

  Commitment, Unique, Moon

• Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Mars, Attractive

• Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Moving, Mean

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

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Long, Goal

• As time goes by, I'm increasingly impressed by how very special and timely it was that we got the degree of national commitment needed to put people on the Moon. For the first time, this nation was united in trying to develop an interplanetary capability. We've been trying to repeat that situation ever since.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Commitment, Moon, People

• Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Couple, Moon, Guy

• 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

  Moon, Space, Transition

• On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. It was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft. So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And i feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moving, Moon, Light

  "What 'Gravity' got right and other nuggets from Buzz Aldrin's Reddit AMA". Reddit AMA, www.al.com. July 08, 2014.

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