In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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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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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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 single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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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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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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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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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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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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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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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 guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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