Buzz Aldrin

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education. ”

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward. ”

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies. ”

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today. ”

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface. ”

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable. ”

Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability. ”

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term. ”

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence. ”

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted. ”