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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More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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