Little things to know about the first astronaut to the moon

Known by all mankind as a great astronaut, Neil Armstrong was reluctant to appear in public and many times confound the press.

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On July 20, 1969, 528 million people across the planet witnessed a landmark event for the history of the world's space exploration as well as humanity's science. At 22:56 New York time, Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 spacecraft became the first person to set foot on the moon.

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His statement then went into history and made all those witnessed at that moment unable to forget: 'This is a small step for a human being but a great step for all humanity'.

During those first moments on the moon, amid the peak of the Soviet-American space race, Armstrong stopped for a moment that he called the "delicate moment" to commemorate those. American and Soviet astronauts died in an attempt to explore the universe. Since then the name Neil Armstrong is known worldwide.

Born on August 5, 1930 at a farm near Wapakoneta, west of Ohio, Neil Armstrong soon had an interest in aviation after his first flight at 6 years old. Automatically tinkering, he created his own models of aircraft and conducted experiments in the self-built wind tunnel.

When he was a boy, while working at a drugstore, Armstrong simultaneously learned to fly a plane. And by the time he was 16 he was licensed to fly even before he had a car license. His interest in flying led him to aeronautical engineering at Purdue before being called into the army in 1949.

Like most astronauts, Armstrong has a sublime composure. Coming from a military pilot, his plane has been repeatedly shot by enemy anti-aircraft artillery. But Armstrong remained calm enough to balance and fly back to the base before being rescued.

Leaving the war army, he became a test flight pilot of the National Aviation Advisory Committee (precursor to NASA's Aerospace Agency) and piloted about 200 different types of aircraft. All of these aircraft are only suitable for test pilots because no one dares to say how those machines will work, whether they are designed or vibrated when it reaches takeoff speed.

It was not until 1962 that Armstrong joined NASA. In later test flights, at least three times Armstrong nearly lost his life. On March 16, 1966, he and his teammate David Scott controlled the Gemini VIII into orbit, starting a mission that was expected to last five days.

Armstrong is admired but does not like popularity

After 5 hours of flying, they assembled with the aim of being an unmanned device called Agena, which was much larger than their Gemini. This device is designed to help astronauts perform the tasks they need to perform during the mission to land on the moon. But after a long time of pairing, the whole device suddenly lost control, turned to the right.

According to NASA procedures, if there are any incidents, the crew must immediately separate from Agena to avoid possible losses. Armstrong followed the instructions but the rotation speed only increased. It turned out that the incident was not in the Agena block, but because the Gemini tube's thruster stopped working. Separating from the larger Agena mass only made the Gemini rotate faster.

'The speed is about 1 round / second,' Scott said. 'We are almost going to see nothing, we may be unconscious and will be completely out of control'. During that life and death, Armstrong calmly turned off the main engine, started the backup system and brought the yacht back into balance. By 22:22, both pilots safely landed in the Pacific Ocean. In an interview with NASA many years later Armstrong called this an 'nothing worth mentioning' incident .

Two years later, Armstrong also had to control a much more rogue machine, named the moon landing equipment (LLTV). The machine, which is 6m tall, weighs more than 1 ton with 4 feet, is not expected to be able to fly as high as 300m because this machine is intended to help Apollo astronauts get used to the module that will land on the moon.

On May 6, 1968, at Ellington Air Base, when Armstrong drove the machine on the ground to about 100 meters, it abruptly stopped the activity of fuel leaks and wobbled wildly. When LLTV dives vertically from such a low altitude everyone thinks the crew is hard to survive. But Armstrong still managed to break the escape seat while LLTV rushed to the ground.

An hour later, when teammate Al Bean found out that he had rushed to Armstrong's office in Ellington in hopes of meeting him, he was still healed after the accident almost lost his life. When Bean came in, unexpectedly Armstrong still calmly sat down to do paperwork.

When Al Bean asked about the accident and if Armstrong was okay, all this astronaut answered was just 'Mm-hmm' and didn't even look up. A long time later, in an interview with CPA Australia about the accident, he revealed: 'I bit my tongue, it was the only loss'.

The third accident almost caused Armstrong to lose his life when he returned to Earth with the Eagle module on July 20, 1969. It is expected that the computer system will control the grounding itself. But when entering the final landing stage, the system was suddenly overloaded. The warning light flashes continuously while the fuel on the ship is almost empty.

Very calm Armstrong turns off the autopilot system and manually controls landing gear. The landing was successful but few knew that the spacecraft could be completely out of control and fell freely to the ground within 30 seconds.

Becoming the focal point of the press after historical destiny, Neil Armstrong was welcomed by the people throughout the United States as a hero. NASA also appointed him to an important position but he quickly gave up a year later to stay at his farm in Ohio and work as a lecturer in aerospace engineering, University of Cincinnati. from 1970 until 1979.

'He does not like interviews but is not unusual or difficult to talk to,' said Ron Huston, a colleague at the University of Cincinnati. 'He simply doesn't want to become a celebrity'.

In 2003, in an appearance in Dayton to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first motorized aircraft flight, in the presence of about 10,000 people, Armstrong spoke only for a few seconds, not even proposing. Update times on the moon before entering the chicken wings.

At the 40th anniversary of the flight to the moon, Armstrong once again quickly disappeared after giving a brief statement that the peaceful competition in space exploration between the US and the Soviet Union helped both sides reach Great success in science, research and discovery.

'I have been and will forever be an enclosed engineer, wear white socks and wear protective gear' , the former astronaut said in a rare appearance before the press in 2000. 'I am very proud with the successes I have achieved at work '.