Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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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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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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 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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