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The Ares V heavy-lift launcher would hurl other hardware into space. That Bush space agenda spurred NASA to orchestrate the Constellation Program, one that involved development of two booster vehicles: Ares I and Ares V. President Obama’s rejection of the previous space plan-the Vision for Space Exploration-announced by President George W. And I expect to be around to see it, the President explained, greeted by bursts of applause throughout the rollout of his prospective missions. By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. So, we’ll start … we’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. And by 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space.

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Obama then called for a series of increasingly demanding targets, made feasible by advancing our technological capacity with each progressive step forward.Įarly in the next decade, a set of crewed flights will test and prove the systems required for exploration beyond low Earth orbit. There’s a lot more of space to explore, and a lot more to learn when we do. But I just have to say pretty bluntly here … we’ve been there before. Now, I understand that some believe that we should attempt a return to the surface of the Moon first, as previously planned, the President said. Welcomed words, but I patiently awaited the punch lines of his speech. But in the four decades since he’s also been one of America’s leading visionaries and authorities on human spaceflight. It was certainly ego lifting to hear him say: Four decades ago, Buzz became a legend. space program.Īs he began a formal address, President Obama was kind enough to recognize me among those gathered. I had some inkling that he was going to push the reset button on the U.S. Kennedy Space Center at Merritt Island, Florida.

It was April 15, 2010, when I stepped off Air Force One, one of several guests invited to travel with U.S. Read moreįm1.2) CHAPTER ONE THE VIEW FROM AIR FORCE ONE Since retiring from NASA, he has done charity work and written numerous books, including Encounter with Tiber (1996), his first science fiction novel. Aldrin flew on Gemini 12, and was selected-along with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins-for Apollo 11, the first mission to the surface of the Moon. After receiving a commission by the United States Air Force (USAF), Aldrin flew sixty-six combat missions during the Korean War, after which he continued his education at MIT before becoming an astronaut in 1963. Unlike most of the others chosen for that role, Aldrin was never a test pilot, but attracted the attention of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with his success in the USAF and his graduate work at MIT.

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Born in Montclair, New Jersey, he turned down a full scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in favor of an education at West Point Academy, where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering.

1930) is an American astronaut, and the second person to walk on the Moon.

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