I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI 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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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