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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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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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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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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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