I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

— Buzz Aldrin

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

— Buzz Aldrin

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

— Buzz Aldrin

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

— Buzz Aldrin

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

— Buzz Aldrin

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

— Buzz Aldrin

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

— Buzz Aldrin

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.

— Buzz Aldrin

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

— Buzz Aldrin

I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.

— Buzz Aldrin