I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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 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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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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