Who was one of the most inspirational men of all time? Who was the first man to land on the moon? Who was the astronaut that will never be forgotten? That man’s name is Neil Armstrong. Achievements made by a society can change its path forever. Neil did this for the United States. He was the first space pioneer. He was the first man to ever touch the moon, let alone get close to it. He inspired future space travel, proving that it is possible to travel through space and land on a different mass in space. Neil was born on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He was the eldest of three kids. He had an interest in planes since the age of six and started taking flying lessons at the age of fourteen. At sixteen, he acquired his pilot’s license. He gain an interest in outer space by his neighbor’s telescope that baffled him. Both of these …show more content…
He later served NASA as the deputy associate administrator for aeronautics until 1971. He left NASA and then went on to be a professor at the University of Cincinnati. He stayed there for eight years. He also served as the chairman of Computing Technologies for Aviation from 1982 to 1992. He helped with the Challenger in 1986. The Challenger exploded taking the lives of the crew and a school teacher. Later in his life he rarely made a public appearance. He gave one interview to 60 Minutes in 2006. Armstrong and his first wife got divorced in 1994. He remarried to a woman named Carol, and they lived in Ohio for the final years of his life. He died on August 25, 2012 at the age of 82 after heart surgery. There is no question that he made an impact on normal people’s lives, as well as NASA itself. He created a path to future moon landings and further exploration of space. His legacy will live on through time. He spoke the words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” as he walked on the moon. People will never forget those words as they echo throughout time and
After that he went into the Air Force academy and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree and advanced into a flight leader and training officer which then he got the ranking of a captain. During his duty he was stationed in North America and Europe. Shorty after serving in the air force he went to become an air pilot with Pacific Southline Airlines. Later on he transferred to US airways and stayed with them until he retired from commercial flying in early 2010.
"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."- John F. Kennedy. On a warm July night in 1969, this dream came true. Millions of people sat captivated in front of their TVs witnessing one of the most monumental events in history, Neil Armstrong walking gracefully on the moon. This event in US history changed the way we look at space forever. Political issues such as the Vietnam War and foreign affairs were on the forefront of American's minds. Thousands of people came peacefully together in a historical concert event called Woodstock. Children were introduced to a place called "Sesame Street" and Heavy Metal meant more than just an old car. The year 1969 impacted American's lives today in politics, science, sports, art, entertainment and daily living.
During Van Dykes life he was married to 3 people. First, he married his wife Margie. Even though he loved his wife, they led separate lives for many years. Sadly, in 1984, they officially divorced. He then got interested in Michelle Triola, who was his secretary for many years. Van Dyke stayed with Triola for 30 years, until her death in 2009. Van Dyke was then left all alone at the age of 86. Surprisingly, he then married 40 year old Arlene Silver and they are both still alive today.
Armstrong eventually went on tour in Europe, during which his now ex-wife sued him, his manager stranded him, and his lip, from so many years of playing, grew sore. He returned to Chicago with no band and no recording label. However, Louis fought past this series of unfortunate events and again reached the top. Louis continued playing until 1969, when health issues forced him to stop performing.
It changed the way people viewed the Earth. Neil Armstrong said, “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.” And while only astronauts could truly observe Earth as it looked 230,000 miles away, Apollo 11’s television broadcast gave people their own view so that “anyone following the mission could share, in some measure, that unprecedented leap in perspective.” (Chaikin 54) This “unprecedented leap in perspective” gave people on Earth a sense of community that surpassed societal issues and cultural bias as people recognized how alone humans are in the vast expanse of the universe.
In the 1920s a new kind of music rose in New Orleans. Different from the ballroom songs popular in that day, former slaves and their families created this new music called jazz, which spread like wildfire. Many artists influenced the growth of this great type of music including Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Louis Armstrong played as one of these great men. Growing up in a poor section of the “Birthplace of Jazz”, Armstrong taught himself to play the trumpet, also known as the cornet. Louis Armstrong was the most influential jazz trumpet player to walk this earth due to his own created style of jazz including many songs that are still used today.
the idea for his book, how his book became a movie and finally, how he became a NASA
16, 1971 in Brooklyn New York, and died on September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas Nevada
He changed the way people thought about the role of humans in the natural world.
Another important individual who drove history was the Italian astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei. Galileo discovered something so important that it changed the selfish perspective that humans were the center of the universe and led to the growth of human knowledge. Utilizing mathematics and a telescope he had developed, Galileo observed that the planets revolved around the sun and not the Earth. This was a significant discovery because not only did it contradict what the church had taught, it also showed that the universe was not what it seemed. With this truth uncovered, many people began to fascinate over the universe. This triggered people to begin studying space extensively and eventually lead to present day space exploration. Galileo also left a lasting impression upon many great minds, such as Sir Isaac Newton, who used Galileo's research and theories to further his own studies such as the physical laws, and their properties.
Carl Sagan once said “every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring—not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive. If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.” The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is executing Sagan’s words every day. President Dwight D. Eisenhower created NASA in 1958 with the purpose of peaceful rather than military space exploration and research to contribute to society. Just 11 years after the creation, NASA put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon, the first humans to accomplish this feat.
Neil Armstrong was the first person to ever land on the moon. Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, he graduated from college in 1955 and joined the NASA team. In 1962, he became the first civilian to enter into an astronaut training program. In 1969, Armstrong headed the Apollo 11 mission, becoing the first human being to set foot on the moon. Other astronauts the accompanied Armstrong on this mission were Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins. In 1971, Armstrong became a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
...erful for social objectives. Technology, especially in aerospace engineering and electronic communication, advanced greatly during this period. Today over a thousand artificial satellites orbit earth, relaying communications data around the planet and facilitating remote sensing of data. The moon landing stood for a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown. To win the Space Race we had to be the first to land a man on the moon and for that moment in the tumultuous 60’s, our country came together in celebration and pride. The citizens of the U.S made the journey possible; through their contributions to the space effort, or even if they just supported the effort they were helping the cause. John F. Kennedy requested, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” We responded, we prevailed, we triumphed.
In the past 100 years, we have made much advancement in all areas of society. The way people live has changed drastically just in the past century. Technology in particular has advanced more in these last 100 years then all previous time combined. For example, because of the research done by many innovative and dedicated individuals such as the Wright Brothers who were the first to sustain flight in a powered airplane, we are able to fly all over the world in a matter of hours in jet propelled pressurized aircraft. One hundred years ago, the thought of man flying in a machine was insane. The Wright Brothers helped to realize the dream of manned flight. Many years later, after the idea of manned flight becoming a reality, space exploration was the next step. In 1969, many people did not believe what happened. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. They posted an American flag, explored, collected space rocks and came back home. Many Americans did not believe that the technology existed to go that far. Today, several missions a year are launched using manned space shuttles that can be flown back to earth like gliders and reused on future space missions.