Think about it, can you be 240,000 miles away and still have millions of eyes watching you? Every step you take, every move you make, what you touch, what you see. If you ask me, that would just creep me out. i'll give you some time to figure out if you would like that, just relax and read all about the great Neil Alden Armstrong. Now, to Armstrong it was just fine, he made a fantasy, the dream come true. Thanks to his courage we now have many other places to go and see because of the way he inspired the world. He has made use get the courage to move out of our world and explore all the new things out side of use. Helped us find out, if you truly do put your mind on something, set your mind on something, and not let go of it, it will take you far.
According to many sources such as the database Biography resource center it says; Neil Armstrong was born on August 5th 1930 in Wapakoneta Ohio. Armstrong was the oldest of three children. Neil’s father and mother were Stephen and Viola Armstrong. His father was an auditor and they moved a lot because of his job. Now Armstrong didn’t really like that because he never really got to stay in one places long enough to make true real best friends. Now I mean, look at it this way, at least he didn’t have to deal with the sad goodbyes. Neil loved flying, anything to do with flying, airplanes, wind tunnels anything and or everything about it. By age two Neil had been in attended air races in Cleveland, says the source of student resource center-gold, Armstrong, Neil (1930) UXL biographies. Also, from the same source it told me that Neil had skipped the 2nd grade. As a child he loved math and science and enjoyed reading books about astronomy. Neil Alden (middle name) had a very extreme interest in airplanes by the age of six. He had always dreamt about flying is own airplane. He said he wanted to be a great pilot when he had gotten older. Neil loved flying So much that he got his pilot’s license before he got his drivers license Neil had to find ways to pay the nine dollars it took to take pilot classes off, so he took the great responsibility to going to weird jobs to get some money. (Neil Armstrong, Notable Scientists, biography resource center.)
As he got older he went to Purdue University, while he was there he had started to get his bachelor’s of science degree in aeronautical engineering. When Neil was there, he had gotten the honorary doctorate in the engineering from Purdue in 1970 While Neil was there he had gotten into the military and never really got to finish his bachelor’s.(Neil Armstrong “ space sciences 4 vols.” Biography resource center) He built a small wind tunnel in his family’s basement for the model planes he had made. He was the youngest pilot at the age of 20. At the age of 20 he had already flew 78 missions in the Korean War. With the 78 missions Neil earned himself 3 air medals when he was only twenty. Man that’s crazy most twenty year olds I know they go out and party and hang out with their friends. Armstrong really took his job seriously. (Lauri DiMauro)
Neil had gotten married to Janet Shearon in 1956 and joined the NASA in 1955.. Armstrong flew jet crafts like the F100, F101, F102, F104, F5D, B-47 and the “Drope Plane.” Neil had piloted the X-1B rocket plane. He also set a record for an altitude of 207,500feet in the air and at a speed of 3,989 miles per hour. As you can tell Neil took his dream and ran with it, to make it come entirely true With this Armstrong earned himself a spot to be a pilot for the Dynasoar, that was and experimental craft, which was going to leave the atmosphere, orbit the earth, reenter the atmosphere and land like a conventional airplane. Armstrong said he would rather not be an astronaut but yet he boarded the great Apollo 11? Neil had been training for a long time in for this trip to the moon. Armstrong said “I rule out the possibility of agreeing to group if I thought I might now come back, unless I was technically indispensable. Dying in space or on the moon isn’t technically indispensable and consequently if I had to choose between death while testing a jet and death on the mood, I’d choose death while testing a jet.” That was Armstrong’s exact words summed up by an unknown reporter. I’m pretty sure that Armstrong has done many things in his life, way more than I can do, way more than I can imagine doing. Neil had left to go to space in the Apollo 11 with two other men. Neil was named the commander of Apollo 11.As he was making the trip to the moon, they had come through some problems. One problem while they were on the moon was the carbon dioxide level was way too high for them to live. Therefore they (the astronauts) had to figure out a way to lower that level. Armstrong ended up walking on the moon on July 20, 1969. . As he took that great step he said, “One small step for man, one giant leap for man kind.” Now that is exciting, but yet they still had many problems with the space ship. One problem that happened on the way back to Earth was the heat shield was cracked and they would possibly blow up when they were going through the Earths atmosphere. This space ship had problems while it was being built so the astronaut and the space ship had to come back to Earth earlier than they were supposed to, that was the first time it had ever happened. All this information came from Laurie DiMauro on student resource center-Gold.
Neil Alden Armstrong won many awards some are Medal of Honor in 1978, 3 medals for called the “Air Medals,” And many more. Some might even say the scholar ship Neil had was an award. Also, Armstrong achieved the first docking between a spacecraft in orbit. After docking the Gemini spacecraft to the Agena target vehicle it began to tumble uncontrollably. David Scott was his partner that also helped disengaged the agenda. They had to fire the ship constantly and then had to abort their flight. After all of the news about Apollo 11 Armstrong decided that being an astronaut wasn’t his thing anymore. So therefore, Apollo 11 was his last ride out into space.
As Neil got older he decided he wanted to be a teacher, he taught for seven years straight for the thing he loved, Aeronautical Engineering. He ended up being the honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Purdue in 1970. (Neil Armstrong “Space Sciences 4vols.). He also tried to improve medical devices. He ended up being head of the CTA which really just means flight scheduling. What I think is weird is that, Armstrong rejected mostly all of his fans and the fame he could have had. He just wanted to be a normal person, live a normal life. But what still amazes me is that he can be 240,000 miles away but still have millions of eyes on you. That is just crazy to me. After the Apollo 11, he joined the NASA, but in 1971 he decided to move back to Ohio with his wife and three kids. He was living in California at the time when he made that decision. All found from, “Armstrong, Neil Alden (1930)” currently Neil is still living; he is about 80 years old. The Impossible had been accomplished, thanks to this great man.
