I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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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 observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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