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.
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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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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 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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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