Where fifty years before, a congressman’s standard move to get reelected was to talk about the programs he had voted for, nowadays it was to talk abo… - Buzz Aldrin

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

A busy eleven minutes later we were in Earth orbit. The Earth didn't look much different from the way it had during my first flight, and yet I kept looking at it. From space it has an almost benign quality. Intellectually one could realize there were wars underway, but emotionally it was impossible to understand such things. The thought reoccurred that wars are generally fought for territory or are disputes over borders; from space the arbitrary borders established on Earth cannot be seen.

The sky is not the limit, because there are footsteps on the Moon.