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Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong is the first human to set foot upon the surface of the moon and famously said, "This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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What time did Apollo 11 leave for the moon?
Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20th, 1969 at 20:17:40 UT (4:17:40 p.m. EDT).
Why did Neil Armsrong go to the moon?
He was sent to the moon by the United States. At the time, there was a space race between the United States and the USSR to get to the moon and beyond first. This was the more political reason for him (and the whole crew) to be sent.
What does one small step for man one giant step for mankind mean?
These words were spoken by Neil Armstrong as he stepped off the Lunar Excursion Module on to the surface of The Moon on 21st July, 1969.
He meant that it was just a small step down to the surface for him, but a giant leap because he was the first human to set foot on another celestial body.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong took one of these on July 16 1969?
Yes he did also he was the first man to walk on the moon
Was anything named after neil Armstrong?
I remember reading something about a street in Dublin, Ireland (I believe it was somewhere in Tallaght) that was named after him but I had a quick search on Google Maps and couldn't find any reference to it. I'm sure I didn't imagine it though.
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Actually I've managed to dig up an old Dublin Street Guide and managed to locate it. There is an Armstrong Walk in addition to an Aldrin Walk and a Tranquility Grove off the Oscar Traynor Road in Coolock, Dublin. That must be the street I was thinking of. Don't know why I thought it was in Tallaght but at least it answers your question.
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Are Neil Armstrongs brother and sister still alive?
No, they both died in 1990 when Neil was 50 years old. They were Stephen and Viola Engel Armstrong- Stephen Armstrong worked as an auditor for the US Government.
How did Neil Armstrong overcome his problems?
Neil Armstrong took his first plane flight when he was 5 years old. 10 years later, he began taking flying lessons at a small airport in Ohio. He earned his pilot’s license before he could drive.
Armstrong was a classic achiever, reaching the rank of Eagle Scout. When he was 17, he enrolled at Purdue University where he studied aeronautical engineering.
His college tuition was paid for under the Holloway Plan: successful applicants committed to two years of study, followed by three years of service in the U.S. Navy, then completion of the final two years of the degree.
Armstrong's call-up from the Navy arrived on January 26, 1949, requiring him to report to Naval Air Station Pensacola for flight training at age 18. This lasted almost 18 months, during which he qualified for carrier landing aboard the USS Cabot and USS Wright. On August 16, 1950, two weeks after his 20th birthday, Armstrong was informed by letter that he was a fully qualified Naval Aviator.
Armstrong flew 78 missions over Korea for a total of 121 hours in the air, most of which were in January 1952. He received the Air Medal for 20 combat missions, a Gold Star for the next 20, and the Korean Service Medal and Engagement Star. Armstrong left the Navy at age 22 on August 23, 1952, and became a Lieutenant, Junior Grade, in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He remained in the reserve for eight years, then resigned his commission on October 21, 1960.
After his service with the Navy, Armstrong returned to Purdue. Following his graduation from Purdue, Armstrong decided to become an experimental research test pilot. He applied at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base; although they had no open positions, they did forward his application to the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, where Armstrong began working at Lewis Field in March 1955. Armstrong's stint at Cleveland lasted a couple of months, and by July 1955, he returned to Edwards AFB for his new job. Armstrong's first flight in a rocket plane was on August 15, 1957, in the Bell X-1B, to an altitude of 11.4 miles. The nose landing gear broke on landing, which had happened on about a dozen previous flights of the Bell X-1B due to the aircraft's design. He later flew the North American X-15 seven times; his penultimate flight reached an altitude of 207,500 feet. Many of the test pilots at Edwards praised Armstrong's engineering ability. Milt Thompson said he was "the most technically capable of the early X-15 pilots." Bill Dana said Armstrong "had a mind that absorbed things like a sponge." Armstrong made seven flights in the X-15 from November 1960 to July 1962. He reached a top altitude of 207,500 feet in the X-15-3, and a top speed of Mach 5.74 (3,989 mph) in the X-15-1; he left the Dryden Flight Research Center with a total of 2,400 flying hours. Over his career, he flew more than 200 different models of aircraft.
In 1958, he was selected for the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest program. In November 1960, Armstrong was chosen as part of the pilot consultant group for the X-20 Dyna-Soar, a military space plane under development by Boeing for the U.S. Air Force, and on March 15, 1962, he was selected by the U.S. Air Force as one of seven pilot-engineers who would fly the space plane when it got off the design board. Armstrong's astronaut application arrived about a week past the June 1, 1962, deadline. Luckily Dick Day, with whom Armstrong had worked closely at Edwards, saw the late arrival of the application and slipped it into the pile before anyone noticed. At Brooks Air Force Base at the end of June, Armstrong underwent a medical exam that many of the applicants described as painful and at times seemingly pointless. Deke Slayton called Armstrong on September 13, 1962, and asked whether he would be interested in joining the NASA Astronaut Corps. Armstrong accepted the offer and became an astronaut. His first assignment was as commander of Gemini 8, where he performed the first docking in space. His success on that mission led him to being selected as the man to make the first lunar landing attempt.
Like most people, Armstrong succeeded by working hard to prepare himself for any opportunities that came his way, and by successfully meeting every challenge he encountered.
Who was the first man to walk on the moon what was the year this happend?
i think it happend in the the late 1960's that was when neil Armstrong went on the moon
Neil, along with every other Apollo crew, was assisted by about 400,000 people. From those who built the spacecraft to those who trained the astronauts to those who worked in mission control during the flight.
Would astronauts on the Moon be able to hear a rocket engine?
I hope so.
However, if they see something that would be noisy on the Earth, but in space, like a rocket firing, they would not hear it in space, because sound needs a medium to travel through, like air. There is no air in space, it is mostly a vacuum. So the only sounds an astronaut should hear are his radio, his breathing and anything tapping on his helmet (the air in the helmet will transmit sound waves to his ears).
Did man land on the moon or hoax?
12 Americans walked on the lunar surface, 1969 to 1972. Proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Even the Russians admit that.
Is billie joe Armstrong related to Neil Armstrong?
No, Curtis Armstrong is not related to Billie Joe Armstrong.
Neil Armstrong's date of birth?
Astronaut Neil Armstrong died at age 82. He was born on 5 August 1930 and died on 25 August 2012.
What is neil Armstrong doing in his retirement?
He began teaching Aeronautical engineering at the university of Cincinatti.
What steps are necessary to reset a broken nose?
You can break your nose by hitting it with a great force. You can try it with your palm which can cause your nose to break.
Who went into space with Neil Armstrong?
Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in NASA's mission Apollo 11.
Neil Armstrong was the Commander
Michael Collins was the Command Module Pilot
"Buzz" Aldrin (Edwin E. Aldrin) was the Lunar Module Pilot
The only other person to walk on the moon was Buzz Aldrin.
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What did Neil Armstrong do after he landed in space?
- In 1970, he was honored with the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy.
- In May 1970, Armstrong went to the Soviet Union to speak on Space Research, at the 13th annual conference of the International Committee.
- He resigned from NASA in 1971 and started working at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.
- Seven years later that is in 1978, he was given the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
- In 1980 Armstrong became the chairman of Cardwell International, a supplier of oil-drilling equipment.
- In 1986 he became the vice-chairman of Challenger inquiry to find the cause of explosion of the Challenger space shuttle.
- He later worked with the EDO Corporation.
- Armstrong married Carol Knight on June 12, 1994. This was his second marriage.
- He was troubled when Hallmark Cards used one of his quotes in a Christmas ornament without his permission. He sued them for that in 1994.
- He retired from the post of Chairman of Board, from the EDO Corporation in 2002.
- In October 2004, Purdue University announced that they were going to name their new engineering building as Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering.
- In May 2005 Armstrong had a strange battle with his barber who had sold his hair after cutting them and made money in the name of Armstrong.
- Armstrong's authorized biography titled 'First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong' was brought out in the year 2005.
- Armstrong is often asked by the press, about the future of space flights. In his opinion, the mission of a man on mars is going to be less challenging than the lunar landing. Today, at the age of 78, he looks at aeronautics with concern and foresight.
