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Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut who became the first man to walk on the moon, a feat only 12 men ever accomplished. Before he was an astronaut, Armstrong became a Navy pilot, the youngest in his squadron. As pilot in the Gemini 8 spacecraft, Armstrong saved it when it spun out of control after a docking procedure. The air and space…

Date of Birth: August 05, 1930

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"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."

Neil Armstrong Topics: Humanity

"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work."

Neil Armstrong Topics: Achievement American Astronaut Famous Motivational Pearls of Wisdom

"Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed."

Neil Armstrong Topics: American Astronaut

"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."

Neil Armstrong Topics: American Astronaut Technology

"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind."

Neil Armstrong Topics: American Astronaut Earth

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine"

Neil Armstrong Topics: Believe

"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

"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand,"

Neil Armstrong

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

Neil Armstrong Topics: American Astronaut

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

Neil Armstrong Topics: Earth

"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

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

Neil Armstrong Topics: American Astronaut Desire

"Research is creating new knowledge."

Neil Armstrong Topics: American Astronaut Knowledge

"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."

Neil Armstrong Topics: American Astronaut

"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

"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."

Neil Armstrong Topics: American Astronaut

"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,"

Neil Armstrong Topics: Beginning

"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 Topics: American Astronaut

"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,"

Neil Armstrong

"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."

Neil Armstrong

"[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."

Neil Armstrong

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