You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONGGeologists have a saying – rocks remember.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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