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. Neil Armstrong Read Quote
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. Neil Armstrong Read Quote
I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon. Neil Armstrong Read Quote
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. Neil Armstrong Read Quote
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. Neil Armstrong Read Quote
If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it. Neil Armstrong Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. Neil Armstrong Read Quote
