Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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Start at the end and work back.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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