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What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Again Around Astronauts Back First Go Going Having Mars Memoirs Reach Repeat Rocket Stay Surface Them Then Turn View Voyage Who Why Would Write You

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Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Again Astronauts Back Become Bringing Colony Expensive Growing Mars Moon Need People Prepare Reached Resources Sending Spend Them To The Moon Who

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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Advancing After Astronauts Back Base Build Chinese First Got How Humans International Know Landing Mars Moon More Return Robots Send Should Than To The Moon Welcomed Without Would Years

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Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Always Astronauts Background Either Experience Government Ideally Military Mission Need Pilot Pilots Should Specialists Test Those Want Who Will Working

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There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found yet. Especially, there's these close approaches of asteroids. They pass within geosynchronous orbit sometimes, and they pass within the Earth and the moon.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: Approaches Astronauts Bodies Close Could Earth Found Moon Orbit Pass Physical Sometimes Visit Within Worlds

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When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

~Cat Stevens

Topics: Allah Astronauts Because Become Earth Go Insignificant Many Religious See Seen Signs Size Space Vastness Very

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Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.

~Charles Duke

Topics: Advert After Astronaut Astronauts Being Best Could Got Job Months More Nasa Out Pilot Recruiting Said Saw School Test Two Volunteered You

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Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: Astronauts Concentrate Fly Flying Forces Jet Like Mind Nasa Need Nothing Prioritize Quite Reason Requires Rocket Same Ship Some Us Ways Your

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There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: Absolutely Astronauts Being Experience Far Gave Get Itself Life Purpose Sense Tenacity Up Whatever You

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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

~Dan Quayle

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