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.
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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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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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