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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHouston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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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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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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