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Neil Armstrong

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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.


— Neil Armstrong


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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.


— Neil Armstrong


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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.


— Neil Armstrong


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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.


— Neil Armstrong


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Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.


— Neil Armstrong


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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.


— Neil Armstrong


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Research is creating new knowledge.


— Neil Armstrong


#knowledge #new #new knowledge #research

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.


— Neil Armstrong


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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.


— Neil Armstrong


#astronaut #attractions #being #completely #flying

The Eagle has landed.


— Neil Armstrong


#landed






About Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong Quotes




Did you know about Neil Armstrong?

Most people don't realize how difficult the mission was. Armstrong then called on back-up pilot Pete Conrad to solve the problem which he did to continue the mission without stopping the countdown clock. It was the longest X-15 flight in both time and distance from the ground track.

He was also an aerospace engineer naval aviator test pilot and university professor. Navy and served in the Korean War. He made his first space flight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in 1966 becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space.

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