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.
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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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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