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Neil Armstrong Quotes
Page 2 of 2Neil Armstrong
August 5, 1930 -
Nationality: American
Category: Astronaut
Subcategory: American Astronaut
|  Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. | | 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. | | I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful. | | 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. | | I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. | | I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. | | Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. |
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