American - Astronaut | January 20, 1930 -
Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
Buzz Aldrin
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A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
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My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
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I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.
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We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
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I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
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Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
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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.
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Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
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Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
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I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
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