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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGEach book holds an experience and an adventure.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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