Title:
Buzz Aldrin: Still Looking to the Stars, and Hoping
Others Will Too
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a VOA Special English General News Report.
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Text:
NEIL ARMSTRONG: "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle
has landed."
History was made on July twentieth,
nineteen-sixty-nine. That is when Americans Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to
land on the moon.
Aldrin is now seventy-nine years old. Six crews of
astronauts visited the moon from nineteen sixty-nine
to nineteen seventy-two.
BUZZ ALDRIN: "And I think those stories need to be
told over and over again."
The American space agency turned to other projects,
including the space shuttle and the International
Space Station. The space station is a joint effort
of sixteen nations. Aldrin says one thing he would
like to see in the future is greater international
cooperation on space exploration.
He says the United States could help other nations
get involved with the space station. He says those
nations could consider calls for an international
project to return to the moon. But he says America
should not use its resources to go there because
that was done earlier.
In two thousand three, President George W. Bush
announced plans to return astronauts to the moon by
the year twenty twenty. He proposed using the moon
as a base to go to the planet Mars. Adrin believes
the United States should send astronauts to Mars. He
says this could be done by twenty thirty-one.
Adrin believes nations can compete in developing
space technology. He says they also should work
together on space projects involving long flights.
He says that goal will require the leadership shown
by great explorers and leaders in the past.
BUZZ ALDRIN: "... the historical nature of a world
leader that commits to a realistic path of about two
dozen years to take creatures from the surface of
one planet, like the Earth, and begin to have a
growing permanent settlement on another planet in
the solar system. Historically that is, in my
estimation, greater than Julius Caesar, Alexander
the Great, Magellan, Columbus, Kennedy."
Aldrin wrote about his life in a book, "Magnificent
Desolation," and a childrens book, called "Look to
the Stars." Im Barbara Klein.
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