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.
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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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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