Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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.
People love conspiracy theories.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.