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.
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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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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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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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