In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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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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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 put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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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 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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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