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Armstrong and his first wife, Janet, separated in 1990 and divorced in 1994 after 38 years of marriage. [209] [210] He met his second wife, Carol Held Knight, at a golf tournament in 1992, when they were seated together at breakfast. She said little to Armstrong, but he called her two weeks later to ask what she was doing.
Neil Armstrong, center, with his wife, Janet, holding flowers on Sept. 6, 1969, at his Wapakoneta homecoming after the successful Apollo 11 moon landing. To Janet Armstrong's left is Ohio Gov ...
I obviously used James Hansen's book ["First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong," which our movie is based on], which is full of information, and I leaned quite a lot on [Armstrong's sons] -- Rick ...
In 2015, after Armstrong died in 2012, his widow contacted the National Air and Space Museum to inform them she had found a white cloth bag in one of Armstrong's closets. The bag contained various items, which should have been left behind in the Lunar Module Eagle , including the 16mm Data Acquisition Camera that had been used to capture images ...
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Buzz Aldrin (/ ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ n / AWL-drin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot.He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
In his memoir, chief astronaut Deke Slayton was less diplomatic, calling See's piloting skills "old-womanish." [11] [15] [16] Others, including Neil Armstrong, who had worked with See on the backup crew for Gemini 5, have since defended See's piloting ability. [8] [11]
The fact that Armstrong got chosen to be "first down" on the lunar surface was a surprise, with astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. being expected to get priority. The mission itself proceeded spectacularly well, and Armstrong delivered his famous line: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." [1] [2]