Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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It 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.
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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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There are places to go beyond belief.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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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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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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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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