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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.
First Man is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Damien Chazelle from a screenplay by Josh Singer, based on the 2005 book by James R. Hansen.The film stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, alongside Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Christopher Abbott, and Ciarán Hinds, and follows the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969.
Cernan and Neil Armstrong testified before U.S. Congress in 2010 in opposition to the cancellation of the Constellation program, which had been initiated during the George W. Bush administration as part of the Vision for Space Exploration with the aim of returning humans to the Moon and eventually Mars, but was deemed underfunded and ...
This week, special guest Carol Armstrong, the wife of the late Neil Armstrong, reads a book inspired by the Apollo 11 mission to children
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 ...
The friendship began when the magazine forwarded Armstrong's letter to Shupe in 1967. ... Shupe's daughter, Nikki Bahler, and Armstrong's daughter, Jessica, have become friends. During this visit ...
Armstrong received significant attention as a singer before Dead Sara's debut was released. Noting her "strong, urgent sound", Grace Slick said Armstrong was a singer she admired in an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2011, [7] and Courtney Love brought Armstrong to New York to sing on Hole's 2010 album, Nobody's Daughter. [8]
In April 1962, Yeager made his only flight with Neil Armstrong. Their job, flying a T-33, was to evaluate Smith Ranch Dry Lake in Nevada for use as an emergency landing site for the North American X-15. In his autobiography, he wrote that he knew the lake bed was unsuitable for landings after recent rains, but Armstrong insisted on flying out ...