As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
NEIL ARMSTRONGPilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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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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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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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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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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 importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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