This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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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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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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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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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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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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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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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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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.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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