Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
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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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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.
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Preflight planners wanted us to stay in TV range so that they could learn from our results how they could best plan for future missions. I candidly admit that I knowingly and deliberately left the planned working area out of TV coverage to examine and photograph the interior crater walls for possible bedrock exposure or other useful information.
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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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Our autopilot was taking us into a verge large crater, about the size of a big football stadium with steep slopes on the crater covered with very large rocks about the size of automobiles that was not the kind of place that I wanted to try to make the first landing.
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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
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There was great uncertainty about how well we would be able to walk in our cumbersome pressurized suit.
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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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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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I’ll not assert that it was a diversion which prevented a war, but nevertheless, it was a diversion.
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Later Apollo flights were able to do more and move further in order to cover larger areas, particularly when the Lunar Rover vehicle became available in 1971.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
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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.