Zitat des Tages von Neil Armstrong:
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 was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Research is creating new knowledge.
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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.
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
The Eagle has landed.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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.
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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.