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Neil Armstrong (35)

Birth:	5th August, 1930
Death:	25th August, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Astronaut, Engineer, Naval Officer, Professor

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• I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

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• Research is creating new knowledge.

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  Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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• People love conspiracy theories.

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• NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

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• 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.

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• I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

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• 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.

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• I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

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

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• The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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• 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.

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• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

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• Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

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

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