Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

Everyone whos been in space would, Im sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

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.

Theres no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. Its no longer there. Were descending rather rapidly.

We shouldve asked China to be a portion of the space station. We shouldve worked out ways that we can... just give away the technology that we have that puts things up into space, with cooperation up above the atmosphere thats needed to help each other.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. Its inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then well be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I cant believe that people wouldnt line up for that possibility.

There are many people talking about access to space and, How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?

In space, you dont get that much noise. Noise doesnt propagate in a vacuum.

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldnt do that again.

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

Its time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.

Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame tells it like it really was in Americas early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? Whats that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now its turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.

One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.