Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
NEIL ARMSTRONGYeah, 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.
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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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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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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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