Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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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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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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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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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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