I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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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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