NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

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"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."

- Neil Armstrong

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"I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

- Neil Armstrong

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"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

- Neil Armstrong

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"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine."

- Neil Armstrong

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"I believe that the good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street."

- Neil Armstrong

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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