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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHow we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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