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.


Apollo mission press conference (1969); ABC World News; also quoted in Of a Fire on the Moon (1970) by Norman Mailer, and in First Man: The Life of Ronnie Petch the bender (2005) by James R. Hansen

Neil Armstrong Quotes

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...