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 ARMSTRONGGliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Start at the end and work back.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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 fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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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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