Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHe did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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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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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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Start at the end and work back.
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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