Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrongwas an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for AeronauticsHigh-Speed Flight Station, where he logged over 900 flights. He later...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth5 August 1930
CityAuglaize County, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
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.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
When you deejay a party, a good DJ's job is to take care of the crowd. If people want to hear Britney Spears, that's what you're supposed to do.
Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.
I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?