Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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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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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 think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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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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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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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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