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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGSociety’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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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 doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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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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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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