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Neil Alden Armstrong byl americký pilot, astronaut a univerzitní profesor. Byl prvním člověkem, který vstoupil na povrch Měsíce.

Než se stal astronautem, sloužil jako pilot v námořnictvu Spojených států amerických, přičemž bojoval ve válce v Koreji. Po odchodu z námořnictva vystudoval letecké inženýrství na Purdueově univerzitě a stal se zkušebním pilotem Národního poradního výboru pro letectví v dnešním Armstrongově leteckém výzkumném středisku, kde se při více než 900 letech účastnil testů řady typů letadel. Od roku 1958 se postupně zapojil do programu letectva Spojených států amerických Man In Space Soonest, testování raketového letounu North American X-15, a vývoje raketoplánu Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar.

Roku 1962 přešel do oddílu astronautů NASA. Jeho prvním kosmickým letem byla mise Gemini 8 v březnu 1966. Během ní se loď Gemini 8 setkala a spojila s bezpilotním raketovým stupněm Agena TV-8. Astronauti Armstrong a David Scott tak uskutečnili první spojení dvou těles na oběžné dráze. Druhým a posledním letem Armstronga byla mise Apollo 11. Zatímco Michael Collins kroužil ve velitelském modulu kolem Měsíce, Neil Armstrong a Buzz Aldrin 20. července 1969 jako první lidé na Měsíci přistáli. Armstrong 21. července vystoupil jako první člověk na jeho povrch, a získal tím světovou proslulost.

Roku 1971 odešel z NASA a vyučoval na Cincinnatské univerzitě, poté byl mluvčím a členem správních rad několika společností. Zemřel roku 2012 na komplikace po operaci srdce. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. srpen 1930 – 25. srpen 2012   •   Další jména Neil Alden Armstrong
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„Je to malý krůček pro člověka, ale velký skok pro lidstvo.“

21. července 1969 poté, co se jeho noha poprvé dotkla povrchu Měsíce.

Neil Armstrong citáty a výroky

„Houstone, tady základna Tranquility. Orel přistál.“

První slova z lunárního modulu Eagle při misi Apollo 11 po jeho přistání

Neil Armstrong: Citáty anglicky

Neil Armstrong citát: “I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.”

“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.”

Apollo mission press conference (1969); ABC World News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/neil-armstrong-man-moon-dead/story?id=12325140&page=2#.UE0Vm67hdjw; also quoted in Of a Fire on the Moon (1970) by Norman Mailer, <!-- p. 46-47 --> and in First Man: The Life of Ronnie Petch the bender (2005) by James R. Hansen<!-- p. 399 -->
Kontext: I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul … we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

“That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Words said when Armstrong first stepped onto the Moon (20 July 1969) One Small Step, transcript of Apollo 11 Moon landing https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11.step.html. In the actual sound recordings he apparently fails to say "a" before "man" and says: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." This was generally considered by many to simply be an error of omission on his part. Armstrong long insisted he did say "a man" but that it was inaudible. Prior to new evidence supporting his claim, he stated a preference for the "a" to appear in parentheses when the quote is written. The debate continues on the matter, as "Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon" at BBC News (3 June 2009) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8081817.stm reports that more recent analysis by linguist John Olsson and author Chris Riley with higher quality recordings indicates that he did not say "a".
Varianta: That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

“I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.”

First On The Moon : A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E Aldrin, Jr. (1970) edited by Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin, p. 113, states of this: "Like many a quote which gets printed once and therefore enshrined in the libraries of all newspapers and magazines, this particular one was erroneous. Neil recalled having heard the quote, and he even recalled having repeated it once. He did not subscribe to its thesis, however, and he only quoted it so that he could disagree with it."
Misattributed

“Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.”

On his famous moonwalk, as quoted in In the Shadow of the Moon : A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (2007) by Francis French and Colin Burgess
Kontext: Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.

“A century hence, 2000 may be viewed as quite a primitive period in human history. It’s something to hope for.”

"The Engineered Century" http://www.nae.edu/Publications/Bridge/TheVertiginousMarchofTechnology/TheEngineeredCentury.aspx remarks delivered during National Engineers Week on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering at the National Press Club (22 February 2000)
Kontext: A century hence, 2000 may be viewed as quite a primitive period in human history. It’s something to hope for. … I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer — born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow. As an engineer, I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession.

“The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon.”

Interview at The New Space Race (August 2007) http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/00861/armstrongiscool.htm
Kontext: The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

“The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight.”

Interview at The New Space Race (August 2007) http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/00861/armstrongiscool.htm
Kontext: The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

First words from the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle after guiding the craft to a landing on the Moon at 4:17pm EDT (20 July 1969)

“I’ll not assert that it was a diversion which prevented a war, but nevertheless, it was a diversion.”

Apollo 11 40th anniversary celebration (2009), Armstrong discussed how the space race functioned politically Neil Armstrong's Giant Leap http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/139479, by Chris Higgins, in Mental Floss (25 August 2012)

“I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.”

Declining to be interviewed for a magazine article, quoted in "Armstrong's Code" by Kathy Sawyer in Washington Post Magazine (11 July 1999) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/space/armstrong1.htm

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