Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
NEIL ARMSTRONGWell, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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 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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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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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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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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 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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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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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