Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
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.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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.
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.
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
People love conspiracy theories.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
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.
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
The Eagle has landed.
