I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
NEIL ARMSTRONGAs I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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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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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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Here 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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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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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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