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.
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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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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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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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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