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.

— 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.

— Buzz Aldrin

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

— Buzz Aldrin

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

— Buzz Aldrin

The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

— Buzz Aldrin

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

— Buzz Aldrin

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

— Buzz Aldrin

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

— Buzz Aldrin

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

— Buzz Aldrin

We should've asked China to be a portion of the space station. We should've worked out ways that we can... just give away the technology that we have that puts things up into space, with cooperation up above the atmosphere that's needed to help each other.

— Buzz Aldrin