It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
NEIL ARMSTRONGPilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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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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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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 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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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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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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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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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