Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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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 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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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 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 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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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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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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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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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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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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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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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 think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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