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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGKnowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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 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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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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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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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