Airicist
13th March 2014, 13:54
Neil Alden Armstrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong) on Wikipedia
Airicist
13th March 2014, 13:55
https://vimeo.com/79550505
Neil Armstrong - interview
November 16, 2013
Neil Armstrong tells Brian Buffini about the most spectacular sight from space.
Interview at Buffini & Company's MasterMind Summit in 2002.
November 16, 2013
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 -- August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first man to walk on the moon. He was an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the USNavy. He earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he logged over 900 flights. He later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California.
A participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962. He made his first space flight, as command pilot of Gemini 8, in 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. On this mission, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft, with pilot David Scott.
Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing, in July 1969. On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent two and a half hours exploring, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module. Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon; in 1978, President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978; he and his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.
Quiet, low profiled, highly intelligent, capable, articulate man who did the USA proud as an unofficial, international ambassador of American 60's 70's values. Disciplined, kept himself contained in the face of unimaginable invasive, intrusive crowds demanding his attention. All he ever wanted was to fly. The limelight to him was what limelight truly is, a load of unwanted, useless baggage.
Armstrong died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 25, 2012, at the age of 82, after complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.
Airicist
17th July 2014, 00:04
https://youtu.be/091ezcY-mkU
LLRV Testing Contributed to Apollo 11's Success
Published on Jul 16, 2014
NASA marks the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing this month. The world watched in awe as astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set their lunar module Eagle down in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, while crewmate Michael Collins orbited above in the command module Columbia.
This video, featuring comments from the late Apollo 11 astronaut and research pilot Neil Armstrong, explores the contributions of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) development and flight-testing at NASA's Flight Research Center, recently renamed in Armstrong's honor, to the Apollo moon-landing program.
As we reflect on the accomplishments of the Apollo program, NASA is preparing to make the next giant leap to venture even further into space. The new Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft will enable astronauts to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit around the moon, thus enabling scientific investigations of the origins of our solar system. Just as we solved and trained how to land on the moon, we are driven to explore the cosmos, to make America's "next giant leap" to send astronauts to Mars.