Buzz Aldrin Quotes - Page 11

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• 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

  Government, Together, Orbit

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Interview, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Team, Korea, Europe

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fun, Ocean, Thoughtful

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Opportunity, Thinking

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• 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

  Effort, Mars, Asteroids

  Interview with Scholastic students, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• 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

  Achievement, Humanity, Mind

  "Ask Me Anything" with Buzz Aldrin, www.reddit.com.

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• 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

  Inspiration, Moon, Careers

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• 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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• 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

  Moon, Thinking, Space

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mother, Brother, Moon

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• 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

  Moon, Becoming One, Years

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• 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

  Successful, Challenges, Training

  "Ask Me Anything" with Buzz Aldrin, www.reddit.com.

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• 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.

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  Recovery, Reality, Space

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• At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Air, Smell, Feet

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• Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Distance, People, Waste

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• I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not put together detailed jobs of people outside. I believe it could have been improved. But it was very successful for what it was.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Jobs, Believe, Successful

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• Unless we are able to commit to a permanent growing settlement [on Mars], then I don't think just going there with humans and coming back is worth doing. The expense of planning to come back is like the people who left Europe to come to America and then to turn around and go back to Europe, it really doesn't make any sense at all.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, America, Europe

  Source: www.euronews.com

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• Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Kids, Moon, Opportunity

  "Buzz Aldrin's mission to Mars". Interview with Jeremy Wilks, www.euronews.com. February 7, 2013.

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• As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a fighter pilot, I observed the selection of the Mercury astronauts. All this was fascinating, but I really didn't think I would ever be a part of it. It was only when my good friend Ed White was selected as a Gemini astronaut that I decided to join NASA as part of the Apollo program.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Good Friend, Thinking, White

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Felt, Urges

  "Not My Job: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin On Getting Mooned". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 15, 2013.

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• 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

  Winning, People, Watches

  "Not My Job: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin On Getting Mooned". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 15, 2013.

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