Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGPilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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 blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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