He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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