But at one point, I said, “Mr. Armstrong, in the days leading up to Apollo 11, did you ever just go out and look at the moon, and think, ‘My God, I’m going to be standing there looking down at blue-green marble Earth?’ ” And he said, “No.” That was the extent of it. He wasn’t being difficult, he just didn’t think like that. It was a mission, something to be accomplished, and he accomplished it.
