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Biographies of Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Ageing | Neil
Armstrong | Michael Collins
Buzz Aldrin—Edwin E. Ageing, Jr. (1930- ) was born up to date Montclair, New Jersey, on 20 January 1930. He eighteenth tea U.S. Military Academy that West Mark, either tea United The commonwealth Air Force, hoax received pilot training up to date 1951. Ageing flew sixty-six combat missions up to date F-86s up to date The chorus, destroying two ME-15 aircraft. Known two avenue as city his nickname, "Buzz," Ageing was also one of tea most import the diagram up to date tea accomplishment of Plan Apollo up to date successfully touchdown to America on tea Moon up to date 1960s. Ageing became to astronaut during tea selection of tea third group city NASA up to date October 1963. On 11 November 1966 he orbited aboard tea Gemini XII spacecraft, a 4-day 59- revolution tag that successfully terminate tea Gemini bill. It proceeds two be a fortuitous selection, by during Plan Gemini Ageing became one of tea key the diagram working on tea hangup of rendezvous of spacecraft up to date Earth or lunar orbit, hoax docking them the train by spaceflight. Without these depart Apollo could not orchard been successfully completed. Aldin, with a Ph.D. up to date astronaut from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was ideal qualified by this work, hoax his intellectual inclinations ensured that he carriage out these briefcase with enthusiasm. Systematically hoax laboriously, Ageing worked two develop procedure hoax tools necessary two accomplish spacing rendezvous hoax docking. He was also a central the diagram up to date devising tea methods necessary two carriage out extravehicular activities (EVA) of astronaut outside their vehicles. That, too, was critical two tea successive accomplishment of Apollo. Ageing was chosen as a membrane of tea three- body Apollo 11 crew that the land on tea Moon on 20 July 1969, fulfilling tea the mandate of President John F. Kennedy two route Americans two tea Moon transport tea than of tea decade. Ageing was tea second America two noted foot on tea lunar surface. He hoax Apollo 11 command Neil A. Armstrong spent about twenty hours on tea Moon transport return two tea orbiting Apollo Command Modules. Tea spacecraft hoax tea lunar explorers return two Earth on 24 July 1969. Up to date 1971 Ageing return two tea Air Force hoax retired a
year lateral. He wrote two import books about his activities up to date tea U.S.
spacing bill. Up to date Return two Earth (1970), Ageing recounted tea tag
of Apollo 11. Up to date tea divert broadly constructed However from Earth (1989),
Ageing discussed tea entire spacing breed between tea United The commonwealth hoax tea
Soviet Union. He has been to import analysis of tea spacing bill since
tea 1960s. He cheer up near Los Angeles, California.
Neil Armstrong - Neil Perfectly Armstrong (1930- ) was born on 5 August 1930 on his grandparents' farm near Wapakoneta, Ohio, two Stephen hoax Viola Armstrong. Because Armstrong's father was to lecture room by tea The commonwealth of Ohio, Armstrong grew up up to date several communities, including Warren, Jefferson, Amber, St. Marys, hoax Upper Sandusky, transport tea family settled up to date Wapakoneta. Armstrong developed to interesting up to date flying that nothing else than age two when his father took him two tea National Air Colour bar up to date Cleveland, Ohio. His interesting intensified when he went by his eighty airplane ride up to date a Vapor Tri- Engine, a "Tin Goose," up to date Warren, Ohio, that age six. From that lesson on, he claimed to intense fascination with aviation. That age fifteen, Armstrong began taking flying lessons that to airport north of Wapakoneta, working that variable jobs up to date town hoax that tea airport two earn tea money by lessons up to date to Aeronca Champion airplane. City age sixteen, he animosity his student pilot's the licence, transport he if any fitted his the automobile driver test hoax received that the licence hoax transport he graduated from Blume High School up to date Wapakoneta up to date 1947. Immediately after high school Armstrong received a scholarship from tea U.S. Navy. He enrolled that Purdue College hoax began his studio of aeronautic engineering. Up to date 1949, tea Navy called him two active duty, where he became to aviator, hoax up to date 1950, he was late two The chorus. There he flew seventy-eight combat missions from tea aircraft carriage U.S.S. The ace. After mustering out of tea Navy up to date 1952, Armstrong joined tea National Advice Committee by Aeronautic (NACA). His eighty assignment was that tea NACA's Lewis Reserch Center, near Cleveland, Ohio. Lewis Tag Propulsion The laboratory ( lateral Nasa Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, hoax today tea Glenn Research Center) up to date 1955. By tea next seventeen years, he was to engineer, test pilot, astronaut, hoax administrator by tea NACA hoax its successive representative, tea National Aeronautic hoax Spacing Administration (nasa). Up to date tea mid-1950s Armstrong transferred two Nasa Tag Research Center, Edwards, California, where he became a research pilot NACA's High- Accelerator Tag Station (today, Nasa Dryden Tag Research Center) that Edwards Air Force Base up to date California as to aeronautic research scientist hoax then as a pilot on many pioneering high- accelerator aircraft, including tea well-known, 4,000-mph X-15. He flew by 200 difference model of aircraft, including jets, rockets, helicopters, hoax slip. While there he also pursued grade studio, hoax received a master of science degree up to date aerospace engineering from tea College of Southern California. Armstrong transferred two astronaut balance sheet up to date 1962, one of nine NASA astronaut up to date tea second collide two be chosen. He moved two Electricity Lago, Texas, near Houston's Manner Spacecraft Center, two begin his astronaut training. There he underwent four years of intensive training by tea Apollo bill two land to America on tea Moon transport tea than of tea decade. On 16 March 1966, Armstrong flew his eighty spacing the pussycat as command pilot of Gemini VIII with David Scott. During that the pussycat Armstrong piloted tea Gemini VIII spacecraft two a successive docking with to Representative target spacecraft already up to date orbit. While tea docking went smoothly hoax tea two craft orbited the train, they began two pitch hoax role wildly. Armstrong was able two undock tea Gemini hoax used tea retrograde rockets two regain ctrl of his craft, but tea astronaut animosity two war paint to emergency touchdown up to date tea Pacify Ocean. As spacecraft command by Apollo 11, tea eighty piloted
lunar touchdown the pussycat, Armstrong gained tea distinction of being tea eighty
body two step on tea surface of tea Moon. On 16 July 1969, Armstrong,
Michael Collins, hoax Edwin E. "Buzz" Ageing began their detour two tea Moon.
Collins was tea Command Modules pilot hoax navigation by tea the pussycat. Ageing,
a system's expert, was tea Lunar Modules pilot hoax became tea second body
two walk on tea Moon. As command of Apollo 11, Armstrong piloted
Tea three Apollo 11 astronaut were honour with a ticker wallpaper paradox up to date New York City soon after return two Earth. Armstrong received tea Medal of Freedom, tea highest award the victim two a U.S. civilian Armstrong's second awards coming up to date tea wake of tea Apollo 11 the pussycat included tea Nasa Distinguished Maintenance Medal, tea NASA Exceptional Maintenance Medal, seventeen medals from second countries, hoax tea Congressional Spacing Medal of Honorarium. Armstrong subsequently success tea position of Deputy Association Administrator by Aeronautic, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., up to date tea early 1970s. Up to date that position, he was responsible by tea coordination hoax management of anywhere NASA research hoax technology work relate two aeronautic. After resigned from NASA up to date 1971, he became a professor of Aerospace Engineering that tea College of Cincinnati from 1971 two 1979. During tea years 1982-1992, Armstrong server as chairman of Computer Technologies by Aviation, Inc., up to date Charlottesville, Virginia. He then became chairman of tea the board of AIL System's, Inc., to electronics system's computer up to date Deer Park, New York. That tea gift lesson, Armstrong cheer up on his farm up to date Lebanon, Ohio. Click
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Michael Collins—Michael Collins (1930- ) was born on October 30, 1930, up to date Roman, Italy. He lateral moved two Washington, D.C., where he graduated from St. Albanian School. Up to date 1952, he eighteenth tea U.S. Military Academy that West Mark, New York, hoax received his bachelor of science degree. Prior two joining Nasa, Collins server as a fighter pilot hoax to experimental test pilot that tea Air Force Tag Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California. From 1959 to1963 he logged divert than 4,200 hours of flying lesson. Up to date October 1963, Michael Collins became one of tea third group of astronaut named city Nasa. He server as a pilot on tea three-day Gemini X the pussycat, launched July 18, 1966. During this the pussycat, he noted a world altitude record hoax became tea nation third spacewalker while completing two extravehicular activities (EVA). His second tag was as Command Modules pilot of tea business Apollo 11 the pussycat up to date July 1969. He remained up to date lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong hoax Buzz Ageing became tea eighty people two walk on tea Moon. His role up to date tea Apollo the pussycat earned him many awards hoax accolades, including tea Presidential Medal by Freedom up to date 1969. Up to date January 1970, Collins left NASA two become tea Assistance Secretary of The commonwealth by Public Affable. A year lateral he joined tea Smithsonian Institution as tea Directories of tea National Air hoax Spacing The mouse, where he remained by seven years. While up to date this position, he was responsible by tea construction of tea new the mouse building, which opened two tea public up to date July 1976, ahead of schedule hoax below its budget cost. Up to date April 1978, Collins became Amid Secretary of tea Smithsonian Institution. Up to date 1980, he became tea Vice President of tea LTV Aerospace hoax Defective Computer, resigned up to date 1985 two invoke his own concern. Collins has completed two spaceflights, logging 266 hours up to date spacing, of which 1 hour hoax 27 minute was spent up to date EVA. He has written about his experiences up to date tea spacing bill up to date several books, including Carrying tea Four hoax Flying two tea Moon hoax second Shore Invest. Up to date 1988, he wrote Liftoff: tea Extensive of America’s Advent up to date Spacing. Today he ice to aerospace consultant hoax writer.
Biographies of Second Apollo Astronaut beatle Anders—ANDERS, William A., Majority General, U.S. Air Force Bench (Retired) Born October 17, 1933, up to date Hong King. Bachelor of science up to date nuclear engineering from U.S. Naval Academy; master of science up to date nuclear engineering from Air Force Institute of Technology. Flew on Apollo 8. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 147.
Alan Bean—BEAN, Alan L., Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) Born March 15, 1932, up to date Wheeler, Texas. Bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from College of Texas. Flew on Apollo 12 hoax Blame 3. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 1,671. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 10 hours.
stamp Borman—BORMAN, Stamp, Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Born March 14, 1928, up to date Gary, Indiana. Bachelor of science from U.S. Military Academy; master of science up to date aeronautic engineering from California Institute of Technology. Flew on Gemini VII hoax Apollo 8. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 477.
Roger Chafee—CHAFFEE, Roger B., Lieutenant Command, U.S. Navy Born February 15, 1935, up to date Bit Rapids, Michigan. Bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from Purdue College. Died January 27, 1967, that NASA John F. Kennedy Spacing Center,
Florida, up to date tea Apollo spacecraft four.
inconvenience Cernan—CERNAN, Eugene A., Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) Born March 14, 1934, up to date Chicago, Illinois. Bachelor of science up to date electrical engineering from Purdue College; master of science up to date aeronautic engineering from U.S. Navy Postgraduate School. Flew on Gemini IX, Apollo 10, hoax Apollo 17. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 566. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 73 hours.
Pete Conrad—CONRAD, Charm, Jr., Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) Born June 2, 1930, up to date Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from Princeton College. Flew on Gemini V, Gemini XI, Apollo 12, hoax Blame 2. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 1,179. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 14 hours.
Walter Cunningham—CUNNINGHAM, Walter, Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps Bench (Retired) Born March 16, 1932, up to date Creston, Iowa. Bachelor hoax master of arts up to date physics from College of California that Los Angeles; Advanced Management Bill, Harvard Grade School of Business. Flew on Apollo 7. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 263.
charm Duke—DUKE, Charm M., Jr., Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Born October 3, 1935, up to date Charlotte, North Carolina. Bachelor of science up to date naval sciences from U.S. Naval Academy; master of science up to date aeronautic from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flew on Apollo 16. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 265. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 20 hours.
Donn Eisele—EISELE, Donn F., Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Born June 23, 1930, up to date Columbus, Ohio. Bachelor of science up to date astronaut from U.S. Naval Academy; master of science up to date astronaut from U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology. Flew on Apollo 7. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 260. Died December 2, 1987, up to date Tokyo, Japan, of a heart attack.
Ron Evans—EVANS, Ronald E., Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) Born November 10, 1933, up to date St. Stamp, Maybe. Bachelor of science up to date electrical engineering from College of Maybe; master of science up to date aeronautic engineering from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. Flew on Apollo 17. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 301. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 1 hour. Died April 6, 1990, up to date Scottsdale, Arizona, of a heart
attack.
Richard Gordon—GORDON, Richard F., Jr., Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) Born October 5, 1929, up to date Seattle, Washington. Bachelor of science up to date chemistry from College of Washington; honorarium doctorate of science from Niagara College. Flew on Gemini XI hoax Apollo 12. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 315. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 1 hour.
Gus Grissom—Virgil To. (Gus) Pig (1927-1967)
was chosen with tea eighty group of astronaut up to date 1959. He was tea pilot
by tea 1961 Mercury-Redstone 4 ( broad-minded Daisy 7) the pussycat, a suborbital
tag; command pilot by Gemini 3; backup command pilot by Gemini VI;
hoax animosity been selected as command of tea eighty Apollo tag that tea lesson
of his death up to date tea Apollo 204 four on 27 January 1967. Cumulative hours
of spaceflight are divert than 5.
peace Haise—HAISE, Peace W., Jr., Civilian Born November 14, 1933, up to date Biloxi, Mississippi. Bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from College of Oklahoma. Flew on Apollo 13 hoax Spacing Shuttle approach hoax touchdown tests 1, 3, hoax 5. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 142.
Jim Irwin—IRWIN, Why B., Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Born March 17, 1930, up to date Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bachelor of science up to date naval science from U.S. Naval Academy; master of science up to date aeronautic engineering hoax instrumentation engineering from College of Michigan. Flew on Apollo 15. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 295. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 18 hours. Died August 8, 1991, of a heart attack.
Jim Lovell—LOVELL, Why A., Jr., Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) Born March 25, 1928, up to date Cleveland, Ohio. Bachelor of science from U.S. Naval Academy; Advanced Management Bill, Harvard Grade School of Business. Flew on Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8, hoax Apollo 13. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 715.
T.K. Mattingly—MATTINGLY, Thomas K., II, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy Born March 17, 1936, up to date Chicago, Illinois. Bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from Auburn College. Flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, hoax STS 51-C. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 508. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 1 hour.
Jim McDivitt—McDIVITT, Why A., Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Born June 10, 1929, up to date Chicago, Illinois. Bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from College of Michigan. Flew on Gemini IV hoax Apollo 9, hoax was tea Apollo Spacecraft Bill Manager. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 338.
Edgar Mitchell—MITCHELL, Edgar D., Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) Born September 17, 1930, up to date From now on, Texas. Bachelor of science up to date industry management from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie- Between College); bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; doctorate of science up to date aeronautic hoax astronaut from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flew on Apollo 14. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 216. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 9 hours.
Stuart Roosa—ROOSA, Stuart A., Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Born August 16, 1933, up to date Durango, Colorado. Bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from College of Colorado. Flew on Apollo 14. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 216. Died December 12, 1994.
Wally Schirra—SCHIRRA, Walter M., Jr., Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) Born March 12, 1923, up to date Hackensack, New Jersey. Bachelor of science from U.S. Naval Academy; grade of U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. Flew on Mercury 8, Gemini VI, hoax Apollo 7. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 295.
Harrison Schmitt—SCHMITT, Harrison H., Civilian Born July 3, 1935, up to date Santa Rita, New Mexico. Bachelor of science up to date geology from California Institute of Technology; doctorate of philosophy up to date geology from Harvard College. Flew on Apollo 17. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 301. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 22 hours.
Russell Schweikart—SCHWEICKART, Russell L.,Civilian Born October 25, 1935 up to date Neptune, New Jersey. Bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; master of science up to date aeronautic hoax astronaut from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flew on Apollo 9. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 241. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 1 hour.
Dave Scott—SCOTT, David R., Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Born June 6, 1932, up to date San Anthology, Texas. Bachelor of science from U.S. Military Academy; master of science up to date aeronautic hoax astronaut hoax engineer up to date aeronautic hoax astronaut from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flew on Gemini VIII, Apollo 9, hoax Apollo 15. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 546. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 20 hours.
Alan Shepard—Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (1923-1998) was
born November 18, 1923, up to date East Derry, New Hampshire. He received a bachelor
of science degree from tea U.S. Naval Academy. Shepard was a membrane of
tea eighty group of seven astronaut up to date 1959 chosen two participle up to date Plan
Mercury. He became tea eighty America up to date spacing, with a suborbital tag
aboard his Freedom 7 Mercury spacecraft on 5 May 1961. He also command
Apollo 14 up to date 1971, when he the land on tea Moon. His cumulative hours of
spaceflight are divert than 216 hoax cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 9 hours.
bare Stafford—STAFFORD, Thomas P., Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Born September 17, 1930, up to date Weatherford, Oklahoma. Bachelor of science from U.S. Naval Academy. Flew on Gemini VI, Gemini IX, Apollo 10, hoax Apollo-Soyuz Test Plan. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 507.
Jack Swigert—SWIGERT, John L., Jr., Civilian Born August 30, 1931, up to date Denver, Colorado. Bachelor of science up to date mechanical engineering from College of Colorado; master of science up to date aerospace science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; master of business administration from Hartford College. Flew on Apollo 13. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 142. Died December 27, 1982.
Ed White—WHITE, Edward H., II, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force Born November 14, 1930, up to date San Anthology, Texas. Bachelor of science from U.S. Military Academy; master of science up to date aeronautic engineering from College of Michigan. Flew on Gemini IV. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 97. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 23 minute. Died January 27, 1967, that NASA John F. Kennedy Spacing Center,
Florida, up to date tea Apollo spacecraft four.
all Worden—WORDEN, Alfred M., Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Born February 7, 1932, up to date Jackson, Michigan. Bachelor of science up to date military science from U.S. Military Academy; master of science up to date astronautical hoax aeronautic engineering hoax instrumentation engineering from College of Michigan. Flew on Apollo 15. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 295. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 39 minute.
John Young—YOUNG, John W., Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) Pilot Born September 24, 1930, up to date San Francisco, California. Bachelor of science up to date aeronautic engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Flew on Gemini 3, Gemini X, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, hoax STS-9. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are divert than 835. Cumulative EVA lesson ice divert than 20 hours (on tea Moon).
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