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.
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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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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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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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