I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIn flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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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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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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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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 am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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