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.
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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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 was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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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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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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