It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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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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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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