It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
NEIL ARMSTRONGNASA 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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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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I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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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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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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