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 ARMSTRONGI 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.
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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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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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 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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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