Neil Armstrong Biography. First Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong Biography. First Man on the Moon

Biography forNeil Armstrong

Date of Birth5 August 1930, Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA
Birth NameNeil Alden Armstrong
Height5' 11" (1.80 m)
Spouse
Carol Held Knight
(12 June 1994 - present)
Janet Shearon
(28 January 1956 - 1994) (divorced) 3 children
Trivia
NASA Astronaut. Selected in the second group of astronauts. Flew jets during Korean War. Flew X-15 rocket plane. On Gemini 8 in 1966 he flew with Dave Scott conducting the first docking of a manned vehicle with an Agena target vehicle. On Apollo 11 in 1969 with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins became the first men to land on the moon. Retired from NASA in 1970.
Brother in the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Astronauts Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted a plaque on the lunar surface on 20 July 1969. It reads: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind."
Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
NASA realized after the Apollo 11 mission had returned to Earth that they had no good pictures of the First Man on the Moon to show to the world. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin said later: "As the sequence of lunar operations evolved, Neil had the camera most of the time, and the majority of pictures taken on the Moon that include an astronaut are of me. It wasn't until we were back on Earth and in the lunar receiving laboratory, looking over the pictures, that we realized there were few pictures of Neil. My fault, perhaps, but we had never simulated this in our training".
On 20 July 1969, at 10:56 pm EDT, he stepped down from the Lunar Excursion Module Eagle and became the first man to set foot on the moon.
The first man to walk on the Moon also holds the record for the greatest distance between target landing area and actual landing: in March 1966, Gemini 8 came down near Okinawa, but the intended target was the Caribbean, a distance of at least eight and a half thousand miles (13,000+ km).
Son Eric (b. 1957), daughter Karen (1959-1961) and son Mark (b. 1963).
A crater on the moon is named Armstrong after him.
For the record, it was Neil Armstrong's left foot that first made contact with the surface of the moon.
In 2005, he became embroiled in a bizarre legal dispute with his longtime barber, Marx Sizemore. Armstrong alleged that after cutting some of his hair, Sizemore sold it to a collector for $3000.00 (US) without his knowledge or consent. Armstrong demanded that if Sizemore did not either return the hair in question or donate the proceeds to a charity of Armstrong's choice, he would take legal action against him. Since Sizemore could not get the hair back, he donated the proceeds to the charity of his Armstrong's choosing.
Since 1994, he has stopped signing autographs after finding that many of his signatures were selling for significant amounts of money, and that there were several forgeries in circulation. Any requests that are sent to him are answered with a form letter stating he has stopped signing autographs.
In 1979, while working on his farm in Lebanon, Ohio, he jumped off a grain tractor and his wedding ring was caught in the wheel, severing his ring finger. He managed to calmly collect the finger, pack it ice and had it reattached by micro surgeons at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.
Honorary member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
Personal Quotes
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. [First words spoken on the moon. The speech as written by his wife read "That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind." Unfortunately he forgot the a in the between for and man, thus changing the meaning.]
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.
"Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." [First message to the Earth from the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle after landing on the Moon, 20 July 1969]
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
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. ...commenting on the feasibility of a manned mission to Mars.
Where Are They Now
(2006) Release of his biography, "First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong" by James R. Hansen.

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