Carefully set foot on the surface of the moon. "This small step is a small step for one person; but it is a huge step for mankind as a whole!"

If someone asks you: "What animal do you know that can fly?" The highest?" Many people will definitely answer: "The eagle flies the highest." If someone tells you that an eagle can fly to the moon, you will definitely think that this person has something wrong with his mind.

On July 20, 1969, an American named Armstrong reported a piece of news to all mankind: the eagle had flown to the moon. Everyone who heard the news at that time knew that there was indeed nothing wrong with his mind, and that the news he reported was indeed true.

Of course what Armstrong was talking about was not an ordinary eagle, but the American "Apollo 11" moon landing spacecraft. More than a billion people on earth witnessed Armstrong slowly stepping off the spacecraft and carefully setting his feet on the lunar surface through live television broadcasts. "This small step is a small step for one person; but it is a huge step for mankind as a whole!" Armstrong's famous saying became the great declaration of mankind's conquest of the moon.

As the first space eagle to fly on the moon, Armstrong deservedly became the hero of all mankind.

Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930, in a small city in Ohio, USA. Neil has been fascinated by flying since he was a child. He started taking flying lessons at the age of 15, and he earned the tuition by working part-time. Due to his excellent academic performance, he obtained a trainee pilot's driving license at the age of 16. At that time, he didn't even have a driver's license yet. To use a Chinese saying, Little Neil has learned to run before he can walk.

After graduating from high school in 1947, Armstrong received a scholarship from the U.S. Navy and entered the famous Purdue University. In 1949, Junior enlisted in the Army and officially became a pilot in the U.S. Navy. In the following ten years, Armstrong flew more than 200 aircraft of various types, including gliders, helicopters, jets, etc. The most famous model was the X15 ultra-high-speed rocket plane with a speed of 6,500 kilometers per hour. . During this period, Armstrong also successfully completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California while working and received a master's degree in aerospace engineering.

In 1962, Armstrong was selected by NASA and became the second batch of American astronauts. On March 16, 1966, Armstrong, as the spacecraft commander, and Scott piloted the Gemini 8 spacecraft to dock with a satellite in space. After successfully docking, the spacecraft suddenly began to rotate. Armstrong steered the spacecraft away from the satellite, but the spacecraft was still somersaulting in space. Armstrong activated one of the 16 jet thrusters, and the spacecraft was still spinning. They started the second thruster, and 30 minutes later, the spacecraft finally stabilized. According to the instructions of the ground center, they terminated the mission, successfully flew back to the ground, and landed in the designated waters of the Western Pacific.

On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins drove the "Apollo 11" spacecraft to begin mankind's first feat of conquering the moon. On July 21, they arrived at the scheduled landing site on the moon's "Sea of ??Tranquility" and were about to land when they suddenly discovered a football field-sized crater below the spacecraft, which was filled with large and small rocks. If they landed forcefully, they would The lunar module is likely to be smashed by these rocks, and there will not be much fuel left if it continues to fly forward. Armstrong's ability to deal with emergencies was once again put into play. He immediately took emergency measures and changed the spacecraft to manual driving. After continuing to fly for about 20 seconds, he found a relatively flat place 6 kilometers away. Due to high tension, his heartbeat had increased from 77 to 156 beats per minute.

The lunar module finally landed safely on the lunar surface. Armstrong immediately reported to Earth: "Houston, we are reporting from the Moon's Sea of ??Tranquility, the Eagle has landed!"

After several hours of preparation, Armstrong was the first to step out of the lunar module, using his feet to Specially made large rubber shoes left the first human footprints on the lunar surface.

Armstrong and Aldrin began intense work and installed some scientific instruments on the lunar surface, including cosmic ray counters, seismometers, laser reflectors, etc. They took a lot of photos and collected some lunar soil and rock samples. After staying on the lunar surface for more than three hours, they returned to the lunar module.

On July 25, the three of them successfully returned to Earth, completing the first human conquest of other planets.

In 1971, Armstrong retired from NASA and became a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati. In 1981, he retired from the University of Cincinnati and became president of Aerospace Computer Technologies. In 1993, this space eagle was selected by relevant departments and entered the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Reference material: People’s Education Network