Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIn flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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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.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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