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Crèdit de la imatge: NASA official portrait, July 1, 1969

Obres de Neil Armstrong

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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (1994) — Introducció; Introducció — 1,019 exemplars
Mission to Mars (2002) — Pròleg — 206 exemplars
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (2004) — Pròleg, algunes edicions196 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Armstrong, Neil Alden
Data de naixement
1930-08-05
Data de defunció
2012-08-25
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA
Lloc de defunció
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Llocs de residència
Edwards Air Force Base, Mohave Desert, California, USA
Antelope Valley, California, USA
Indian Hill, Ohio, USA
Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA
The Moon
Educació
Purdue University ( [1955])
University of Southern California ( [1962])
Professions
astronaut
test pilot
naval officer
aerospace engineer
university professor
Organitzacions
United States Navy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
University of Cincinnati
Premis i honors
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Congressional Gold Medal
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Korean Service Medal (mostra-les totes 19)
Armed Forces Reserve Medal
Presidential Unit Citation
United Nations Korea Medal
Korean War Service Medal
Naval Aviator Astronaut Badge
Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy
Sylvanus Thayer Award
Collier Trophy
Aerospace Walk of Honor (1991)
National Aviation Hall of Fame (1979)
United States Astronaut Hall of Fame (1993)
Langley Gold Medal (1999)
General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award (2013)
Biografia breu
Neil A. Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1955. He transferred to the NACA High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in July 1955, as an aeronautical research scientist. He became a research pilot later that year. Neil was named as one of nine astronauts for NASA's Gemini and Apollo Projects, leaving the Center for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, in September 1962. Upon graduation from High School in 1947, Armstrong received a scholarship from the U.S. Navy. He enrolled at Purdue University to begin the study of aeronautical engineering. In 1949, the Navy called him to active duty and he became a navy pilot. In 1950, he was sent to Korea where he flew 78 combat missions from the carrier USS Essex in a Grumman F9F-2 Panther. He received the Air Medal and two Gold Stars. In 1952, Armstrong returned to Purdue University and graduated with a bachelors degree in aeronautical engineering in 1955. He later earned a masters degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. At the High-Speed Flight Station (which later became the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center) Armstrong served as project pilot on the North American F-100A and -C aircraft, McDonnell F-101, and the Lockheed F-104A. He also flew the Bell X-1B (4 flights, first on August 15, 1957), Bell X-5 (one flight, the last in the program, on October 25, 1955) and the Paresev. On November 30, 1960, Armstrong made his first flight in the X-15. He made a total of seven flights in the rocket plane reaching an altitude of 207,500 feet in the X-15-3 and a Mach number of 5.74 (3,989 mph) in the X-15-1. He left the Flight Research Center with a total of 2450 flying hours in more than 50 aircraft types. He was a member of the USAF-NASA Dyna-Soar Pilot Consultant Group, and studied X-20 Dyna-Soar approaches and abort maneuvers through use of the F-102A and F5D jet aircraft. Armstrong later accumulated a total of 8 days and 14 hours in space, including 2 hours and 48 minutes walking on the Moon. In March 1966, he was commander of the Gemini 8 mission that performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for the Apollo 11 lunar mission, on July 20, 1969, he became the first human to set foot on the Moon. In 1970 he was appointed Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics at NASA Headquarters. He resigned in 1971. Neil wrote several technical reports and presented a number of research papers. In June 1962, the Octave Chanute Award was presented to Neil by the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences. Other awards received by Neil have included the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. (NASA)

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Excellent description of both the lunar voyage and American life circa 1969.

I watched the lunar landing from a tiny TV set imported into my New Hampshire sleepaway camp during July 1969. We couldn't really see the moon that night; like much of that "summer" it was pouring rain.

The book helped me fill in what I missed by not reading daily papers while away at camp. It put me back into history.
 
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JBGUSA | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Jan 2, 2023 |
The Apollo 11 astronauts describe their unparalleled space venture.

FROM AMAZON: From the heroes' mouths but in a quite impersonal third person. The narrative shuttles back and forth from in-flight transmissions to home-fire gatherings to space program retrospectives to scientific elucidations to homey biographical flashbacks to pre-flight preparations to Cape Kennedy hubbub to historical huzzas. But with all the attendant trivia and trappings, it certainly is the stuff of history, and Arthur C. Clarke provides a fascinating epilogue on the future of space travel.… (més)
 
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Gmomaj | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Oct 26, 2019 |
Excellent description of both the lunar voyage and American life circa 1969?
 
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JBGUSA | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Mar 30, 2013 |
Excellent description of both the lunar voyage and American life circa 1969?
 
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JBGUSA | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Mar 30, 2013 |

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Obres
6
També de
4
Membres
420
Popularitat
#58,060
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
7
ISBN
47
Llengües
3

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