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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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