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Neil Armstrong
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
Attributed to Neil Armstrong
Regards Charles Lindbergh.
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Neil Armstrong
A line he used several times. Quoted “as told a group of well-wishers at an air show who wanted to hear what it had been like to walk on the moon” by Kathy Sawyer in Armstrong’s Code, Washington Post Magazine, 11 July 1999.
You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected
Neil Armstrong
In 2005 documentary Magnificent Desolation: Walking On The Moon.
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
Speech to joint session of Congress, 16 September 1969.
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer—born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.
Neil Armstrong
The Engineered Century, speech to the National Press Club, 22 February 2000.
Gliders, sailplanes, they are wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
Neil Armstrong
Interview with Ed Bradley, First Man, CBS TV show 60 Minutes, 2005.
Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
Neil Armstrong
Quoted in Popular Mechanics magazine, June 2009.
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