The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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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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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 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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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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Start at the end and work back.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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