I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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.
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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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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.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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