Pick an amazing dream and go for it. Don't merely make a living; make a life. Launch out farther than you've ever gone before. Today, you have a shot… - Buzz Aldrin

My father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin, was an engineer and an aviation pioneer — and a friend of Charles Lindbergh and Orville Wright.

A lot of times when you just don’t want to think about something, when there is nothing you can do and the waiting is just unbearable, it helps to demand a lot from yourself, to do or learn more than you thought you could, and just let your concentration get you through the bad time.

Let me hypothesize a political scenario on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’ s landing on the moon, in 2019. The U.S. President, whoever that may be, takes the opportunity to direct the future of human space exploration, pioneered by Americans, by stating in a speech: “I believe that this nation should commit itself, within two decades, to establish permanence on the planet Mars.