Neil Armstrong : an american hero

Neil Armstrong : an american hero

Neil Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on August 5, 1930. After having served in the Korean War and then finished college, he worked for a group who studied airplanes. Later, that group took part in the NASA. He flew in several planes for them. He also helped designing planes. These planes used to fly very high and very fast. It set record.

He had joined the astronaut program in 1962 and had been commanded pilot for his first mission in 1966. He was spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar mission, and became the first man to walk on the moon.  He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2012.

After Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong did not wish to leave to the space; he accepted a professor's post in the aerospace genius’ department of the University of Cincinnati and participated in two commissions of inquiry on spatial accidents, with Apollo 13 in 1970 and in 1986 during the disaster of the shuttle Challenger. He used to retire in a nice farm of Ohio. Armstrong died on August 25th, 2012 because of a heart operation.

After Neil Armstrong's death announcement, during the all the night in the United States, he were honoured and he staid as a discreet and patriotic hero in people mind.  

Neil Amstrong said that he was not a hero and that he was only doing his job; this is the way America wants to remember him. "Neil was among the biggest American heroes, not only of the current time, but of all times", asserted Barack Obama.

I chose to consider Neil Amstrong as a hero because he decided to show to the entire world that the American spirit means to be able to see beyond what seems inconceivable. The Astronaute showed that with enough motivation and ingenuity, everything is possible. In fact when Amstrong put a foot on the surface of the Moon for the first time, he offered us a very emotional moment as a result of a big human success that will never be forgotten.

Neil inspired the Americans because he taught the world the enormous power of a “small step”.

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