Friday, October 31

Noteworthy Quote: Leaving Humans on Other Planets



"These people have been trained and given the great historical value of being the first human beings in history to occupy another planet and people want to bring them back?...Let me ask those people who want to bring them back, what are you going to do with them back here on Earth that will in any way [justify] the billions and billions of dollars that have been invested in those human beings to put them on Mars?"

- Statement by former astronaut Buzz Aldrin discussing flying people to Mars (see London's Daily Mail

Footnote:  Maybe we should have left Buzz on the moon.  It was pretty expensive bringing him back.