Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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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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.
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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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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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 regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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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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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 have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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 doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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