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 ARMSTRONGThere are places to go beyond belief.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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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 have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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