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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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.
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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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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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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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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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 have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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