Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrinis an American engineer and former astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, he was one of the first two humans to land on the Moon, and the second person to walk on it. He set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969, following mission commander Neil Armstrong. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer with the Command Pilot rating...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth20 January 1930
CityGlen Ridge, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons where we can send continuous numbers of people.
In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.
I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.
I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.
I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
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.
I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.
I have no doubt that humans will go to Mars. And I feel that America has led so many things in space - we have invested so much, and we have a lot to gain - that America could and should be the nation that should lead the settlement of Mars.
I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.
I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.