Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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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 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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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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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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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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