I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIn flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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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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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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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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 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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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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