I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHouston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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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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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 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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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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