Neil Armstrong Accomplishments

“That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” These famous words, spoken by Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969, marked the famous occasion of the first man on the moon. The successful Apollo 11 mission had many memorable moments and had several great accomplishments. This day has forever gone down in history. Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins were the center of attention up in space. Armstrong grew up in Ohio and became a U.S. Navy Pilot at the age of __. Throughout his life, he was known as a very modest man who tried his absolute hardest to avoid the spotlight. Joining NASA’s space program and commanding Gemini 8 in 1966, Armstrong saved the mission from utter disaster. He used this skill to save Apollo 11 as well, saving both men’s lives, along with the United States’ pride. After all the excitement of being the first man on the moon, Armstrong spent his life helping the Challenger disaster investigation and teaching

Born in New Jersey, Aldrin was part of the United States Air Force, and he gained a Colonel rank. He went on 66 different combat missions before joining NASA, __. Gemini 12 was the first time he was able to be in space, and he set a record long spacewalk (now broken) of three and a half hours. Most people think Aldrin had a perfectly happy life, but this is not true. Aldrin himself suffered with alcoholism and depression, but this wasn’t much of a surprise due to his family’s history of melancholy, suicides, and depression. Aldrin’s mother even took her life fourteen months before the launch __ He recovered enough to take the spot of the lunar module (LM) pilot. After 21 years of service, Aldrin resigned from NASA with a grand total of 289 hours and 53 minutes logged in the flight book under his name. Since then, he has written several space books and has become the president of Starcraft