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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.

— Neil Armstrong

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

Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

A century hence, 2000 may be viewed as quite a primitive period in human history. It's something to hope for.

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I'll not assert that it was a diversion which prevented a war, but nevertheless, it was a diversion.

Apollo 11 40th anniversary celebration (2009)

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