As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
NEIL ARMSTRONGMan must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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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 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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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I 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.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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