Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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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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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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