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Neil Armstrong Biography

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. When he stepped onto the lunar surface on July 21, 1969, he said: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."

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It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew.

Crew, Form, Friends, Hurt, Hurts

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Aviation, Boy, Dreamed, Education, Inspiration, Laughter

We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that. . . other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.

Based, Conclusion, Information, Proof, Ufo

There are two of them up here.

Apollo, Star Gazing, Two

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed. . . magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

Magnifice, Moon, Silver, Surface

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

Destiny, Man, Men, Nature, Universe

You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

Aviation, Handling, Needs, Prepare, Things, Unexpected

Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.

Brand, Figures, Know, People, Stick, Sticks

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

Alone, Aviation, Cast, Casts, Flight, Million

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Achieved, Actually, Astronaut, Century, Ends

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

Happen, Instead, Missing, Moon, Stars

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Know, Mean, Research, Society, Understand

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.

Laplace, Law, Love, Pockets, Tables, White

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

Energy, Future, History, Space Flight, Technological, Technological Development

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.

Areas, Craft, Flying, Machines, Unique

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul. . . we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Moon, Nature, Required, Swim, Thinking

I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.

Believe, Difficult, Goal, Open, Work, Working Together

Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.

Breed, Country, Destiny, Human, Purpose, Space

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.

Become, Deceived, Lead, Logic, Use

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Believe, Part, Progress, Technology

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