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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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Start at the end and work back.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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