I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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 have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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 one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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