Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
NEIL ARMSTRONGEver since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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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 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.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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