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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

Neil Armstrong

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Bird Close Fly Machine Sail Wonderful
It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Moon Sound Time
It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Complex Difficult Forgiveness Land Lunar Sensation Strange
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Believe Exercise Heartbeat Human Number Waste Wasted Time
Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Happen Moon Shoot Stars
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Blue Earth Eyes Giant Planet Pretty Space Stuck Thumb
The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Business Fruit Importance Plant Progress Success
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Attack Believe Difficult Goals Science Spirit Team Work
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Earth Planet Thumb
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Boy Dreamss Education Important Inspirational
I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Learning Look Performance Thinking
No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Matter Moon Science
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Master Predict Science
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Creation Desire Inspirational Man Mystery Understand Wonder
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Character Continue Depend Excitement Future Human Improvement Program Society

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

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