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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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 tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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