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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe 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 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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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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.
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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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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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