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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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