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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIn flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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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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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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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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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 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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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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