I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIf you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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