Research is creating new knowledge.
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
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.
I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
Start at the end and work back.
A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
There are two of them up here.
This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.