He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
NEIL ARMSTRONGSpace has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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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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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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