The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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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The 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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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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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There are places to go beyond belief.
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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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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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 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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