You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONGAs I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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 fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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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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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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