Neil Armstrong Quotes
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~ Neil Armstrong Quote
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
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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.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
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It will certainly be 20 years or more before that happens.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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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.
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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 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.
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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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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Despite being competitors, the Wrights held great respect for Langley.
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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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I guess that's the story of flight in the 20th century: from the beginning, the very first flights at Kitty Hawk to the various, very furthest and fastest flights that man has ever made.
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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.
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Between 7am and 8.30am on Tuesday 8 March, all of our broadband customers lost internet connectivity as a result of planned maintenance on our network over-running from its intended 4am to 6am window.
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These pilots were not involved in such exploration for adventure or to enjoy the view, .. They rocketed to these extreme altitudes to conduct research to learn about and advance the world of flight.
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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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If there are any going, I will certainly be looking to take them.
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I was delighted to be in that project .. but I don't think about it on a day-to-day basis -- probably only when you guys (in the media) remind me.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote
This is 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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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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It will be expensive, it will take a lot of energy and a complex spacecraft. But I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo (space program) in 1961.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
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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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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
~ Neil Armstrong Quote
