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.
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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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 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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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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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