I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
NEIL ARMSTRONGYeah, 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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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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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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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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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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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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Start at the end and work back.
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