Neil Armstrong

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

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

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

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

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.

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.

People love conspiracy theories.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Eagle has landed.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

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.

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

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

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

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