You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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.
Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!
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.
It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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.