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FATIMA: Which explorer shall we talk to today, Ollie?
OLLIE: What about someone who has been to the final frontier, Fatima?
FATIMA: Where’s the final frontier?
OLLIE: Space.
FATIMA: Oh yeah. Let’s talk to somebody who’s been to the Moon!
OLLIE: Great idea. Holo-Lab, find the first person to set foot on the Moon.
HOLO-LAB: Searching, Searching… Found. First person to set foot on the Moon: Neil Armstrong.
FATIMA: The Holo-Lab is going back in time, before mobile phones.
OLLIE: Before the internet?
NEIL ARMSTRONG: Hi, I’m Neil Armstrong. In 1969, I was the first person on the Moon.
FATIMA: Hi Neil, we’re Fatima and Ollie and we want to ask you a few questions about the Moon landings.
NEIL ARMSTRONG: Okay, sure. Nice to meet you guys. Shoot.
OLLIE: How did you get to the Moon, Neil?
NEIL ARMSTRONG: I got to the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission, aboard the Saturn V rocket.
OLLIE: Why did you go to the Moon?
NEIL ARMSTRONG: Because no one had been there before and we w
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Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
For other uses, see Neil Armstrong (disambiguation).
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He entered Purdue University, studying aeronautical engineering, with the U.S. Navy paying his tuition under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949 and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean War, flying the Grumman F9F Panther from the aircraft carrierUSS Essex. After the war, he completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue and became a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was the project pilot on Century Series fighters and flew the
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Early Life and Korean War
Neil Armstrong always wanted to fly. He was born on August 5, 1930 near Wapakoneta, Ohio, less than 60 miles from the Wright brothers’ kurs in Dayton. In 1936, when he was six years old, young Neil rode in his first airplane, a “Tin Goose” Ford tri-motor passenger plane. He was hooked. At 16, Armstrong earned his student pilot’s license, even before he had a driver’s license.
In 1947, Armstrong attended Purdue University on a Naval scholarship, studying aeronautical engineering. As part of his scholarship, the Navy trained Armstrong as a fighter pilot in Florida. His college studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Korean War, where Armstrong flew 78 combat missions. His aircraft, the F-9F Panther jet, was one of the first jet fighters to launch from a carrier.
NASA Test Pilot
After finishing college, Armstrong went to work for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which became the National Aeronautics and Space Admini