NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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