As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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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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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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 am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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