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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGPilots 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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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.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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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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