Neil Armstrong's Journey To The Moon

Neil Armstrong once said, “One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind,” (Kurin 533). Neil spoke those words as he took the first steps on the moon. The United States may remember those words and Neil more than they do the spacesuit that Neil wore on his trip to the moon. If it were not for the spacesuit that Neil wore, there would not have even been a trip to the moon. The most important part of the entire trip to the Moon was the spacesuit. Even though Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit may not be as famous as the man who wore it, it still brought technological advancement to the future, and helpful ways to stay alive on an unknown planet.

When Neil was on the moon, the only thing keeping him alive was his spacesuit. ILC engineers and textile designers invented and created a hand tailored, and crafted spacesuit that was primarily just for the trip to the Moon. This suit was built on the success and unsuccessful suits that were worn in the Gemini program. One particular unsuccessful crash that they looked into was the Apollo 1 fire. ILC engineers added “fire-retardant safety measures” (Kurin 538) to ensure complete safety. Each suit was “hand-built by seamstresses who had to be extraordinarily precise” (Chaikin 25). If a very tiny “stitching error, as small as 1/32 inches,” (Chaikin 25) then it could be a suit that had to be thrown out. This helped ensure that nothing would sneak inside the spacesuit, and harm the astronaut. Such as a micrometeorite, toxic air, harsh temperature, deadly star ultraviolet radiation, and cosmic rays that are on the Moon. In order to keep the astronauts safe from all of these deathly conditions engineers, designers, and crafters had to create a liquid-circulating, temperature-modulating, under...

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...ciation, and he took time to think about becoming an astronaut. When Neil was young, he had always dreamt of flying planes, not space shuttles. After the death of his only daughter in 1961, Neil had heard about the NASA program and decided to go for it Neil said himself, “You can do what you want, but space is the frontier, and that is where I intend to go.” Therefore, in the spring of 1962 Neil applied for training in the NASA program. This began the start of Neil’s long and amazing journey. When Neil stepped onto the moon, even though he could not even see his own feet step onto the moon, he thought that it was the most amazing experience he had ever gone on yet. Neil’s first steps on the moon was the world’s most memorable moments, and if it weren’t for the technical, safe, cool spacesuit, Neil wouldn’t have been able to step foot on the moon in the first place.