Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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That's 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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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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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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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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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It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight.
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The Eagle has landed.
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Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.