We're disengaged from the Agena."Īs the rate of the uncontrolled spin approached one revolution per second, the G-forces reached critical levels. "We have serious problems here," Scott told mission control in Houston. Reacting quickly, Armstrong undocked from the Agena, but the release of the other vehicle's weight caused the astronaut's capsule to enter a wild spin. "I thought the best thing for me to do in that situation was to continue with my work, to keep things as normal as I could and try as hard as I could to not let it affect my ability to do useful things," Armstrong told "60 Minutes." (A third child, Mark, was born in 1963.)Īrmstrong and his co-pilot, David Scott, pulled off the docking without a hitch, but then a malfunctioning thruster caused their space capsule and the attached Gemini Agena target vehicle began to veer off course.
Armstrong threw himself into his new job at NASA headquarters in Houston, Texas.
Their second child, a daughter named Karen, died from an inoperable brain tumor. The long-awaited call to join NASA's astronaut training program came in 1962, the very same year that Neil and Janet suffered a gut-wrenching tragedy. But to fully break the bonds of Earth's atmosphere, Armstrong would have to become an astronaut. The X-15 reached a top speed of 4,000 mph (6,437 kph) and could climb right to the edge of space. A year later, Armstrong married Janet Shearon and they welcomed their first son, Eric, in 1957.Īrmstrong began his space career at the NACA Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn) in Cleveland, Ohio, but made his name as a daring test pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center (now the Armstrong Flight Research Center) in Edwards, California.Īrmstrong flew the famed X-15, one of a line of experimental rocket-powered planes that claimed the lives of several brave NASA test pilots. Need further information? Please click here.He returned to Purdue to finish his degree and was hired by the fledgling National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the precursor to NASA, in 1955. Ready to enquire about a visit? Please click here. More details about a character visit can be found here. Become a news reader and using models, report the event.įurther information on how workshops operate is found here.Seeing how high you can make a rocket go (as demonstrated by adults in the first session).If time allows, by the end of a 45 – 60 minute session all the participants will have been astronauts, in Mission Control and television reporters. The group is split into 3 and rotated around three scenarios each with their own sets of props and costume pieces. Suitable for groups from 10 to 30 children. Watch she does not squirrel away the astronaut food! She can tell tales about: Did the first landing go to plan ? And, just how did they get back? Professor StrangequarkĮxcited to be putting together an exhibition about the Moon landing she needs help to sort the details out. Learn what happened in the Apollo Missions that lead to the first step on the Moon. The Historian tells the story of the Moon Landing from a wider perspective. We offer two characters for this topic: The Historian This introduction can be combined with a role-play and/or workshops to suit you. For fun, we then have the adults seeing who can fire the highest rocket. After this the audience are used to mark out the outline of a Saturn V rocket to enable them to start to understand just how big they were. Using short video clips from the archives the narrator takes the audience through the story as though they were there. It starts with the rivalry between two countries to be the first into space, and then the race to be the first to put a man on the Moon. The visit starts with a presentation telling the story of the space race. This is a packed visit combining whole group presentations, smaller group role-plays and fun finding-out activities.
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