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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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There are places to go beyond belief.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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