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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.

Neil Armstrong

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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Bird Close Fly Machine Sail Wonderful
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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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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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