The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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 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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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