Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline

Humanity is destined to explore, settle, and expand outward into the universe.

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like Im 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.

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

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.

If you want poets in space, youll have to wait.

Ive led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

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

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

By refocusing our space program on Mars for Americas future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now its time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, were going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

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

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

To move forward, whats required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.