Occupation: Astronaut Birth: January 20, 1930
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers..
Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs..
Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities..
I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'.
Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanen….
I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain i….
My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming..
When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education..
My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed ….
Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But ….
I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon..
The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our so….
Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various compan….
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked….
Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not….
For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the sp….
A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing..
I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achie….
It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest..
For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math..
When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not anoth….