Neil armstrong on the moon

Neil armstrong video moon Although this is animated there are some key facts and information your class will learn about the mission. This clip contains some re-enactment footage. With your class you could create a newspaper report. Writing from the day of the landing the children are challenged to create a newspaper article and could even add in picture captions, direct speech and think about the different between first and third person speech. Neil was born on August 5, in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

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These are four of the most famous feet in all of the left, they’re adult size 9. The first feet ever to walk on the on the right, a stonking size 10! Possibly the very first feet ever to reach the North Pole.

These feet belonged to Neil Armstrong and to Matthew men, both explorers from the USA, but who lived very different lives.

Neil Armstrong fell in love with flying when he took his first plane ride, aged just 6.

When he was 16, he’d already got his pilot’s licence. He became a US Navy pilot and then was chosen to train as an astronaut.

Matthew Henson was born much earlier. His parents died when he was young, and he had to work hard to survive.

Biography neil armstrong video clips ks1 These are four of the most famous feet in all of history. The first feet ever to walk on the moon. And on the right, a stonking size 10! Possibly the very first feet ever to reach the North Pole. These feet belonged to Neil Armstrong and to Matthew Henson.

But he always dreamed of travelling.

And when he was 13, in , he got a job working on a ship. The ship’s captain saw how clever he was, and taught him all about sailing and how to read.

Later, he started working with an explorer named Robert Peary, a man who was interested in the Arctic.

That’s how Matthew Henson ended up aiming for the North Pole in , and Neil Armstrong for the moon in

Very different places, but both are so cold, and so harsh, that anyone making a mistake - even a tiny mistake - could easily die.

And so the two expeditions took a lot of preparation.

Henson and Peary spent 20 years learning about the Arctic. Henson stayed with the people who lived there - the Inuit - for a long time.

Neil armstrong video moon landing

Well, there are two real powerful countries on Earth doing all they can to look better than the other. They were competing to be the best. The USA promised to be first to put a person on the Moon. They did this in July with the Apollo 11 mission. Narrator: The Moon does not give off any light of its own.

He learned everything he could from them, about how to travel with dog teams, how to make and fix sleds, how to hunt, even how to make clothes.

Armstrong, and his fellow astronauts, spent years training in models of their real spacecraft. They had to know how to deal with all the different things which might go wrong in space, and think so quickly that they could fix anything that went wrong in just seconds.

It was lucky he had all that training, because he nearly had a crash landing!

At the moment he took the first step on the moon, he was already world famous.

Down on Earth, hundreds of millions of people were listening and watching as he planted the American flag.

‘It’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’

Henson planted a flag too, but for him, things were very different. He couldn’t be sure that he was exactly at the North Pole - because there’s nothing there!

He was the first one to get to a point that he calculated was the right one.

Peary didn’t agree - and went to a different point. Even today, nobody is sure who was right…

And even though they were the first people ever to have got there, they couldn’t tell anyone. They had no radios!

It was only when they’d got all the way back to their ship, and sailed far enough south, that they could send news of their big success.

Even then Matthew Henson wasn’t famous.

All the news talked about was ‘Robert Peary, the man who reached the North Pole’.

Maybe that’s because he was the boss.

Neil armstrong video clips Well, there are two real powerful countries on Earth doing all they can to look better than the other. Neil Armstrong fell in love with flying when his father took him for a ride in an aeroplane when he was six-years-old. As a boy, he loved to read about flying and built model planes. Before he became an astronaut, Neil flew fighter planes for the navy and later tested rocket-powered planes. It was a very dangerous job, but Neil proved calm under pressure.

But it might also be because, at that time, stories about heroes and adventurers were often about white people. Henson’s story didn’t get told until he was an old man.

So, the two explorers had very different experiences. But there were some things they were both very good at. Like making friends!

When you’re stuck in a tiny tent… Or crammed into a tiny space capsule… you have to get on with people without arguing.

And it helps if your feet don’t smell too bad!