I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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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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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’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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Start at the end and work back.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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