As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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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 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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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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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 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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