I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
NEIL ARMSTRONGEvery flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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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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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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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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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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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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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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