A brief biography of Neil Armstrong.
, with Armstrong selected to command the mission. His responsibilities included landing on the moon alongside Aldrin, the pilot of the lunar module Eagle. Collins would remain in lunar orbit aboard the command module Columbia.
The schedule called for the astronauts to sleep before the first moonwalk, but they elected to go outside early because they felt they would not be able to sleep. In view of a black-and-white television camera transmitting his movements live to Earth, Armstrong descended Eagle's lander and touched his left foot upon the surface at 10:56 p.m. EDT July 20 . His first words were"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
The Eagle's crew lifted off safely from the moon on July 21, docked with Columbia, and voyaged back to Earth for a successful ocean landing on July 24. The astronauts went into quarantine to mitigate the risk that they were carrying some sort of moon germs back with them, and then embarked on a world tour to celebrate the mission.After his time as an astronaut, Armstrong was deputy associate administrator for aeronautics at. He resigned from NASA in 1971.
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