Neil Armstrong's speech

“I found myself that Wednesday morning going to work at my same job, my same office, doing the same work that I’d been doing the previous day.

And here tonight, a half-century later, we look back on what has been accomplished. Our knowledge of the universe around us has increased a thousand fold and more.

The goal is far more than just going faster and higher and further. Our goal – indeed our responsibility – is to develop new options for future generations: options in expanding human knowledge, exploration, human settlements and resource development, outside in the universe around us.

Our highest and most important hope is that the human race will improve its intelligence, its character, and its wisdom, so that we’ll be able to properly evaluate and choose among those options, and the many others we will encounter in the years ahead. And I look forward to watching the progress and those exciting development and hearing the status report when we gather again for NASA’s 100th anniversary.” (Armstrong, 2003)