You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONGWe 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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 put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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