Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIf that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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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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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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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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