American - Astronaut | January 20, 1930 -
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
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Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!
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I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.
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Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.
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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.
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Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.
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Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?
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My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
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Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
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I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
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Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
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My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
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