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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGNow and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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 hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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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 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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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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.
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