How did Neil Armstrong become an astronaut?

Answer 1

Neil was never really interested in becoming an astronaut. When he was a young child he was very interested in planes and he wanted to become a pilot. The Wright Brothers were Neil's inspirations.

Answer 2

As a child Neil Armstrong lived near a Air force base , and loved to see the planes takeoff and land, in the evening his one plea was could we see one more plane.So it was his father and the planes that influenced him.

Answer 3

Neil Armstrong loved planes and flying since he was young. He got a pilot's license before a obtaining a driver's license. Flying was his first love, and space flight was the ultimate expression of this love he had for flight. It would not have made sense for him not to have gone to space.

Answer 4

Neil Armstrong became an astronaut in 2010

at the age of three

Answer 5

President Kennedy actually inspired Neil Armstrong to go to the moon. Armstrong went to the moon on Apollo 11 in July 1969.

Answer 6

Various factors influenced NASA in sending Neil Armstrong to the moon. For example, the tensions between the USA and the USSR.

Answer 7

Ever since he was a boy, he loved planes and so joined the air force , and fought in the Korean War.