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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHistory will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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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.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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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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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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