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
People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.
I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.
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.
To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.
There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.
Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!
There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.
One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.