Buzz Aldrin Quotes About Moon

Quotes about: Moon

• History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Math, Science, Moon

• We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Men, People

• Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Beautiful, Moon, Blue

• I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Religious, Reading, Wine

• I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Might, Shoot For The Moon

• I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Moon, Achievement

• I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. 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

  Wine, Moon, Thinking

  "The Moon Communion Of Buzz Aldrin That NASA Didn’t Want To Broadcast". Article by Yasmine Hafiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

• The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Perseverance, Ocean, Science

• Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours, and you know what they represent. Having left the water planet, with all that water brings to Earth in terms of colour and abudance life, the absence of water and atmosphere on the desolate surface of the Moon gives rise to a stark contrast.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Giving, Water

• Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Future, Moon, Space

  FaceBook post by Buzz Aldrin from Nov 22, 2009

• There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Brother, Moon, Years

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.31, National Geographic Books

• If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Eye, Moon, Russia

  "We must aim for Mars, says moonwalker". Interview with James M. Clash, www.smh.com.au. May 24, 2013.

• I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Depression, Mother, Suicide

• In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We've got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Space, People

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

• Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, People, Mars

• 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

  Adventure, Moon, Space

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Interview, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

• The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dark, Moon, Rocks

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

• I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Becoming One, Years

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

• Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Balance, Would Be

• Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Men, Two

• I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Believe, Moon, Space

• What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking, Mars

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.52, National Geographic Books

• Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Space, Needs

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

• Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking, What If

• 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?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Helping Others, Moon, Goal

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