Neil Armstrong: biografi og månelanding

Neil Alden Armstrong was born in 5. August 1930 in Wapakoneta.

He was an American astronaut, and he was the first man to set foot on the moon the 21. July 1969, with his Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong went to the University of Pudre in West Lafayette.

The pair of them touched down in a special landing craft known as the Eagle, while a third astronaut, Michael Collins, remained in the main spacecraft, Apollo 11, orbiting the moon.

Back on earth an estimated 1,000 million TV viewers watched the event which ended a decade of tremendous advances in space exploration. The Soviet Union had put the first man in space. His name was Yuri Gagarin and he made an orbit of the earth in 1961.After this he became a plain clothes test pilot to the NASA and he flew rocket plane x-15.

Armstrong was selected to Astronaut in 1962.He was first on Gemini in 8 marts 1966, when the first connection between two spaceship succeeded.

In 1968 he was a pilot chef to the (reservebesætningen)To Apollo 8, and next year in 1969.

he act who chef pilot on Apollo 11 under the first moon landing. On the journey to the moon’s surface in 20. July 1969.