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.
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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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