Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
NEIL ARMSTRONGHere men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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