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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

Neil Armstrong

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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Bite Business Motivational Overconfident Snap Thinking Try
It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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Close Earth Horizon Interesting Place Pronounce Quite Recommend Sun Surface
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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Blue Earth Eyes Giant Planet Pretty Space Stuck Thumb
The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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Beyond Consideration Control Observation Offer
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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Matter Moon Science
Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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Airplane Excitement Missing Moon
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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Achievement Investment Moon Public Student Success
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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Comfortable Conclude Deceive Hope Logic
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Adult Business Life Risk
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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Character Continue Depend Excitement Future Human Improvement Program Society
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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Astronaut Attraction Fly Moon
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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Expectation Handle Life Need Preparation Unexpected Wrong
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Investigation Research Society Understand
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Angle Arrival Fly Probability Proportional Science Survive
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Man Mystery Understand Wonder

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