A small step for man....
'The Eagle has Landed'. Dat is misschien wel het geheime motto
van de bèta-techniek manifestatie, op 18 november in Den Haag. Met
Armstrong, de commandant van de historische Apollo 11 missie uit
1969, maakt deze bijeenkomst zelf een beetje geschiedenis. Hij zal
een lezing houden en vervolgens ook een Q&A sessie met
belangstellenden. En hier ziet u hem dat eerste stapje zetten en hoort u
Neil Armstrong zijn historische woorden spreken.
Van Ohio naar de Maan
Neil Armstrong is iemand uit het iconische Heartland of America: Wapakoneta in
de staat Ohio. Hij werd daar geboren op 5 augustus 1930. De NASA
geeft de volgende uitvoerige biografie van de First Man on the
Moon:
'As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards,
Calif., he was a project pilot on many pioneering high speed
aircraft, including the well known, 4000-mph X-15. He has flown
over 200 different models of aircraft, including jets, rockets,
helicopters and gliders.
Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962. He was assigned
as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission. Gemini 8 was launched on
March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful
docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for
Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained
the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon
and first to step on its surface.
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Armstrong subsequently held the position of Deputy Associate
Administrator for Aeronautics, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
In this position, he was responsible for the coordination and
management of overall NASA research and technology work related to
aeronautics.
He was Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of
Cincinnati between 1971-1979. During the years 1982-1992, Armstrong
was chairman of Computing Technologies for Aviation, Inc.,
Charlottesville, Va. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in
Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University and a Master of
Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern
California. He holds honorary doctorates from a number of
universities.
Armstrong is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots
and the Royal Aeronautical Society; Honorary Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the International
Astronautics Federation. He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. He served as
a member of the National Commission on Space (1985-1986), as
Vice-Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle
Challenger Accident (1986), and as Chairman of the Presidential
Advisory Committee for the Peace Corps (1971-1973).'
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