Neil Armstrong Quotes

When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time and said the famous words, 'That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind,' he was talking about all of us. Men and women.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.

Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

The Space Program is an investment of the nation’s future…. Humans will not be confined to this planet forever.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.