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 ARMSTRONGDamn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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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 is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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