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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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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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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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