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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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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 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 believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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