A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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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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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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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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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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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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