Armstrong concluded: The responsibility for this flight lies first with history and with the giants of science who have preceded this effort; next with the American people, who have, through their will, indicated their desire; next with four administrations and their Congresses, for implementing that will; and then, with the agency and industry teams that built our spacecraft, the Saturn, the Columbia, the Eagle, and the little EMU, the spacesuit and backpack that was our small spacecraft out on the lunar surface.
Armstrong je zaključio: "Odgovornost za ovaj let leži najprije na povijesti i divovima znanosti koji su prethodili ovom postignuću, potom na američkom narodu koji je prema svojoj volji izrazio svoju želju, potom na četiri administracije i njihovim kongresima za implementaciju te želje, i na agenciji i industriji koja je izradila našu svemirsku letjelicu, Saturn, Columbiju i Eagle, mali EMU, svemirsko odijelo i naprtnjaču koji su bili naš mali svemirski brod na površini Mjeseca.