Neil Armstrong Quotes

People love conspiracy theories.

Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

All the Apollo people were working hard, working long hours, and were dedicated to making certain everything they did, they were doing to the very best of their ability.

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

There was great uncertainty about how well we would be able to walk in our cumbersome pressurized suit.

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.

"Each book holds an experience and an adventure."

[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

It is true that we were cautious in our planning. There were many uncertainties about how well our Lunar module systems and our Pressure suit and backpack would match the engineering predictions in the hostile lunar environment. We were operating in a near perfect vacuum with the temperature well above 200 degrees Fahrenheit with the local gravity only one sixth that of Earth. That combination cannot be duplicated here on Earth, but we tried as best we could to test our equipment for those conditions. For example, because normal air conditioning is inadequate for lunar conditions, we were required to use cold water to cool the interior of our suits. We did not have any data to tell us how long the small water tank in our backpacks would suffice. NASA officials limited our surface working time to 2 and 3/4 hours on that first surface exploration to assure that we would not expire of hyperthermia.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Houston, the Eagle has landed.

The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on Earth.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight.

It would be impossible to overstate the appreciation that we on the crew feel for your dedication and the quality of your work.

Our autopilot was taking us into a very large crater, about the size of a big football stadium with steep slopes on the crater covered with very large rocks about the size of automobiles that was not the kind of place that I wanted to try to make the first landing.