Top 200 Quotes by Buzz Aldrin

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

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

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.

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.