" At least that's what everybody heard | "How long must it take before I cease to be known as a spaceman? 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 |
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Their second child, a daughter named Karen, died from an inoperable brain tumor | " In the 2018 film "First Man," based on Hansen's 2005 biography of the same name, Armstrong played by blue-eyed Ryan Gosling is brought to tears during the moonwalk as he remembers his beautiful daughter Karen and deposits her bracelet in a small crater |
"You can imagine a college student walking into a freshman aeronautical engineering class and there's Neil Armstrong with chalk dust all over the sleeves of his black jacket," laughs Pyle.
In 1966, he was chosen as the command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission | before he got his driver's license |
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"You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue," , the spacecraft communicator on behalf of the white-knuckled NASA crew in Houston |
" As the rate of the uncontrolled spin approached one revolution per second, the G-forces reached critical levels.