I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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 think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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