Buzz Aldrin
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"Buzz Aldrin" is an United States/American engineer and former astronaut, and the Apollo 11#Lunar surface operations/second person to walk on the Moon. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history. He set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 (Coordinated Universal Time/UTC) on July 21, 1969, following mission commander Neil Armstrong. He is also a former United States Air Force/U.S. Air Force officer and a Command Pilot.

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I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

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Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations.

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Why can't the average citizen? That's what I've been promoting in the last several years.

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I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.

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We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

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Taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on that Saturn, we might have been on the way. But then the Russians might have got to the moon first.

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As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and encourage them to no longer suffer in silence and get help.

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Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, to keep the political support going. We've gone to the Moon, we've stopped doing that; now commercial people are doing it. Who knows? Maybe we will get technology from other sources; something I have written about in my days of writing science fiction.

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The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream.

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