Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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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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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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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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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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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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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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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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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Start at the end and work back.
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