Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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People love conspiracy theories.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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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 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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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 fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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