Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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We were involved in doing what many thought to be impossible, putting humans on Earth’s moon.
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I’m quite certain that we’ll have such lunar bases in our lifetime, somewhat like the Antarctic stations and similar scientific outposts, continually manned.
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Friends and colleagues all of a sudden looked at us, treated us, slightly differently than had months or years before when we were working together. I never quite understood that.
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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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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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It would be impossible to overstate the appreciation that we on the crew feel for your dedication and the quality of your work.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
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All the Apollo people were working hard, working long hours, and were dedicated to making certain everything they did, they were doing to the very best of their ability.
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That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.
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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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I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
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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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.