Sunday, September 30, 2012

Blog#7 The commander of the Apollo 11 rocket died

Masanobu Yaji
 
  On August 25 , 2012,  Neil Armstrong died at age 82. He had a heart bypass surgery in early August.
  He is very famous NASA astronaut. He got through a task as a commander of the Apollo 11 rocker and he became the first man to step onto lunar soil in 1969. His word of wisdom "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," went down in history and made a deep impression on people all over the world.
 Right after the flight, he taght engineering in college and He led a quiet life with his wife and children.

3 comments:

  1. He is so famous for stepping on the moon. However, there seems there's an opinion that it is fiction, and he actually didn't stepped on the moon

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  3. I have known him. But I haven't known he had lived ever. I appreciate that he made dream for mankind.

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