I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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.
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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