I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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