Neil Armstrong Short Quotes

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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

Neil Armstrong
Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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

Neil Armstrong
We were involved in doing what many thought to be impossible, putting humans on Earth's moon.

Neil Armstrong
I'll not assert that it was a diversion which prevented a war, but nevertheless, it was a diversion.

Neil Armstrong
There was great uncertainty about how well we would be able to walk in our cumbersome pressurized suit.

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

Neil Armstrong
The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on Earth.

Neil Armstrong
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next ten.

Neil Armstrong
It would be impossible to overstate the appreciation that we on the crew feel for your dedication and the quality of your work.

Neil Armstrong
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.

Neil Armstrong
Later Apollo flights were able to do more and move further in order to cover larger areas, particularly when the Lunar Rover vehicle became available in 1971.

Neil Armstrong
I'm quite certain that we'll have such [lunar] bases in our lifetime, somewhat like the Antarctic stations and similar scientific outposts, continually manned.

Neil Armstrong
All the Apollo people were working hard, working long hours, and were dedicated to making certain everything they did, they were doing to the very best of their ability.

Neil Armstrong
Friends and colleagues all of a sudden looked at us, treated us, slightly differently than had months or years before when we were working together. I never quite understood that.

Neil Armstrong