I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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