I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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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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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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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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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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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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