The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward. -Buzz Aldrin Knowledge
Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility. -Buzz Aldrin Space
To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security. -Buzz Aldrin Science
For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math. -Buzz Aldrin Science
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. -Buzz Aldrin Travel
To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security. -Buzz Aldrin Space
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. -Buzz Aldrin Space
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 Science
There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again. -Buzz Aldrin Space
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. -Buzz Aldrin Space
Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in. -Buzz Aldrin Fear
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. -Buzz Aldrin Space
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 Food
NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people. -Buzz Aldrin Sad
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. -Buzz Aldrin Leadership
Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future. -Buzz Aldrin Learning
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world. -Buzz Aldrin Technology
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 Leadership
