I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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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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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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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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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 only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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