Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) started his career in Ohio as a naval aviator for four years. In 1955 Neil joined the NACA and was sent to Cleveland. He stayed in this position for the next seventeen years of his life doing different positions in NASA. The many things he accomplished was being an astronaut, teacher, engineer, test pilot and becoming administrator over the NACA and NASA.
Neil Armstrong accomplished many things in space by being the command pilot in Command 8 which was the first to ever dock vehicles in space. He then went on Apollo 11 took off to space not know that it would change the world and be a historical moment within the world. There was two other men that went on the mission with Neil Armstrong and they were Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin Jr “Buzz”. “An estimated 530 million people watched Armstrong's televised image and heard his voice describe the event as he took "...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" on July 20, 1969.” (NASA). They spent a little over 21 hours on the moon surface. As they were coming back to earth they had bad weather at the
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Armstrong a position and he took it. He choose to buy a farm and try to salvage his relationship with his family. Mr. Armstrong married Janet Shearon and had 3 beautiful children but divorced in 1994. They were married for 38 years. He then married Carol Kight that same year he divorced Janet. Neil and Janet Armstrong had a child pass away, Karen. “Tragically Karen, afflicted with a brain tumor, died in 1962 at age 2. "I thought the best thing for me to do in that situation was to continue with my work, keep things as normal as I could," Armstrong told 60 Minutes. "I was; I was doing the best I could."” (People). Mr. Armstrong loved his children and regretted that his work took so much time away from them. He missed out on a lot of family moments that he couldn’t get