The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHouston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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