I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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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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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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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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