Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONGSpace has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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