Neil Armstrong is a favorite name all over the world. the Congressional Space Medal of Honor; Navy Pilot, an aerospace engineer, a check pilot and a university professor. Neil Armstrong to many of the people was referred to as the first one who was strolling on the moon. He finished his undergraduate level at Purdue University and his Graduate research at the University of Southern California. When he reached this accomplishment, Neil Armstrong stated some terms, which are quoted today by many people, the quotation being the next: “That’s one small stage for guy, one giant leap for mankind”. However, this article ‘a’ was lacking before the term ‘man’ in the transmitting, which made a totally different indicating. the NASA Distinguished Support Medal; He retains honorary doctorates from several universities. As an associate of the Navy, Neil Armstrong was serving in the Korean battle. Also, Neil Armstrong offered as a check pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Due to that, Neil Armstrong could get an usage of many aircrafts. the Robert J. Armstrong was created on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Those two missions had been Apollo 11, which produced him a favorite astronaut in the globe since it was his well-known moon landing, and Gemini 8, which became much less well-known when his Apollo 11 mission. On July 21st, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped out of his lunar module and produced first human guidelines on the top of moon. Also, he became a face of varied products and businesses, such as for example General Time Chrysler, Bankers Association of America and Company. When he produced this accomplishment, Neil Armstrong retired from his profession as an astronaut. This knowledge provided Armstrong a leg up when he volunteered for the NASA Astronaut Corp in 1962. This achievement became a brief history in the globe and due to it, Neil Armstrong net well worth also improved by a mile.S. Well-known for his lines ‘One little step for a guy, one huge leap for mankind’, Neil Armstrong is among the most popular guy who has produced a history in Technology. Neil Armstrong is definitely also called the first guy who first set feet on the moon.
Known for movies
Future Flight (1987) as Himself
Tornadoes: The Entity (1993) as Himself, Narrator
The Other Side of the Moon (1990) as Himself
Bob Hope's Salute to NASA: 25 Years of Reaching for the Stars (1983) as Himself
Quick Facts
Full Name
Neil Armstrong
Net Worth
$8 Million
Died
August 25, 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Height
1.8 m
Profession
Aerospace Engineer, United States Naval Aviator, Test pilot, Voice Actor, Astronaut, Professor, Naval Officer
Education
University of Southern California, Purdue University, Blume High School
Nationality
American
Spouse
Carol Held Knight, Janet Shearon
Children
Eric Armstrong, Karen Armstrong, Mark Armstrong
Parents
Stephen Armstrong, Viola Armstrong
Siblings
Dean Armstrong, June Armstrong
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, Collier Trophy, Langley Gold Medal, Sylvanus Thayer Award, Hubbard Medal, General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award, Special Gold Logie for Providing TV's Greatest Moment in Their Moon Telecast, British Academy Television Award for Best Foreign Television Programme
Movies
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers' Journey of Invention
TV Shows
British television Apollo 11 coverage, First Flights with Neil Armstrong
Interesting Facts
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Fact
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Inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1993.
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Inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1976.
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Inducted into the International Aerospace Hall of Fame in 1966.
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Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1979.
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Honorary member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
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In 1979, while working on his farm in Lebanon, Ohio, he jumped off a grain tractor and his wedding ring was caught in the wheel, severing his ring finger. He managed to calmly collect the finger, pack it ice and had it reattached by micro surgeons at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.
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He stopped signing autographs in 1994 after finding that many of his signatures were selling for significant amounts of money, and that there were several forgeries in circulation. Since then any requests that were sent to him were answered with a form letter stating that he had stopped signing autographs.
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In 2005, he became embroiled in a bizarre legal dispute with his longtime barber, Marx Sizemore. Armstrong alleged that after cutting some of his hair, Sizemore sold it to a collector for $3000.00 (US) without his knowledge or consent. Armstrong demanded that if Sizemore did not either return the hair in question or donate the proceeds to a charity of Armstrong's choice, he would take legal action against him. Since Sizemore could not get the hair back, he donated the proceeds to the charity of Armstrong's choosing.
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For the record, it was Neil Armstrong's left foot that first made contact with the surface of the moon.
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A crater on the moon is named Armstrong after him.
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Has three children: Eric (born 1957), Karen (1959-1961) and Mark (born 1963).
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The first man to walk on the Moon also holds the record for the greatest distance between target landing area and actual landing: in March 1966, Gemini 8 came down near Okinawa, but the intended target was the Caribbean, a distance of at least eight and a half thousand miles (13,000+ km).
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On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 pm EDT, he stepped down from the Lunar Excursion Module Eagle and became the first man to set foot on the moon.
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NASA realized after the Apollo 11 mission had returned to Earth that they had no good pictures of the First Man on the Moon to show to the world. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin said later: "As the sequence of lunar operations evolved, Neil had the camera most of the time, and the majority of pictures taken on the Moon that include an astronaut are of me. It wasn't until we were back on Earth and in the lunar receiving laboratory, looking over the pictures, that we realized there were few pictures of Neil. My fault, perhaps, but we had never simulated this in our training.".
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Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California on January 14, 1993.
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Astronauts Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted a plaque on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. It reads: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.".
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Is a Brother of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
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NASA Astronaut. Selected in the second group of astronauts. Flew jets during Korean War. Flew X-15 rocket plane. On Gemini 8 in 1966, he flew with Dave Scott conducting the first docking of a manned vehicle with an Agena target vehicle. On Apollo 11 in 1969, with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, became the first men to land on the moon. Retired from NASA in 1970.
Quotes
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In my mind, the important thing was that we got four aluminum legs safely down on the surface of the moon while we were still inside the craft. To me, there wasn't a lot of difference between having ten feet of leg between the bottom of the spacecraft in which we were standing and the surface of the moon, and having one inch of neoprene rubber or plastic on the bottom of our boots touching the lunar surface.
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[commenting of the feasibility of a manned mission to Mars] I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo (space program) in 1961.
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. [First message to the Earth from the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle after landing on the Moon, 20 July 1969]
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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.
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That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. [First words spoken on the moon. The speech as written by his wife read, "That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind". Unfortunately, he forgot the a in the between for and man, thus changing the meaning.]
$8 Million
