I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
NEIL ARMSTRONGPilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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 have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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