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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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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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