The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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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.
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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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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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We 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.
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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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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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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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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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