The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHere men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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