Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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 observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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