Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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 have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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