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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.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote

I was the strange creature that kidnapped Bock from his homeland and brought him to this strange new and still changing planet. I can't help feeling that I owe him an apology or at least an explanation.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote

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.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
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It will certainly be 20 years or more before that happens.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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We would have loved the opportunity to take some time to enjoy it, but we had the inevitable checklist and experiments that had to go on. So it was back to business, back to work as soon as we congratulated each other.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote

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 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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If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote

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.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote