Buzz Aldrin Quotes

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

We're working on New Glenn, which is our orbital vehicle, but we have in our mind's eye an even bigger vehicle called New Armstrong.

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

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

It seems that 'rocket scientist' is a job category that's here for the long haul, like 'mortician.' But all this activity masks an important point: rockets are not a terribly efficient way to lift things into space.

I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early '70s was going to be an astronaut.

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.

We must become a space-faring nation.

We can put a satellite in orbit in 60 days.

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