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
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.
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.
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.
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I was the strange creature that kidnapped Bock from his homeland and brought him to this strange new and still changing planet. I can't help feeling that I owe him an apology or at least an explanation.
We would have loved the opportunity to take some time to enjoy it, but we had the inevitable checklist and experiments that had to go on. So it was back to business, back to work as soon as we congratulated each other.
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It will certainly be 20 years or more before that happens,
It will be expensive, it will take a lot of energy and a complex spacecraft. But I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo (space program) in 1961.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
I was delighted to be in that project ... but I don't think about it on a day-to-day basis -- probably only when you guys (in the media) remind me.