I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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 never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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