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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

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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Achievement Investment Moon Public Student Success
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Emotion Fear One Liner
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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Blue Earth Eyes Giant Planet Pretty Space Stuck Thumb
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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Class History Reading Regret
Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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One Liner Remember Rock
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Giant Leap Man ManKindness Motivational Step
Research is creating new knowledge.
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Creation Knowledge One Liner Research Science Travel
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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Case Change Drama Improvement Science Space Technology
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.
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Matter Moon Science
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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Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Engineer Pocket Protect Socks
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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Achievement Attack Believe Difficult Goals Science Spirit Team Work
The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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Beyond Consideration Control Observation Offer
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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Expectation Handle Life Need Preparation Unexpected Wrong
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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Achievement Demostrate Forever Human Opportunity Planet Unlimited Vision
It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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Deep Earth God Greatness Man Moon Walk
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Book Creation Fire Imagination Meet Poet
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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Believe Exercise Heartbeat Human Number Waste Wasted Time
Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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Happen Moon Shoot Stars
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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Achievement Actual Century Expectation Substant Success
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
Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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Airplane Excitement Missing Moon
Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Done Moon Success
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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Atom Century Development Energy History Light Remember Space Technology
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Fly Freedom Joy Pilot
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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Character Continue Depend Excitement Future Human Improvement Program Society
Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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Destiny Inspirational Man Understand Universe

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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