1969 Armstrong Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Armstrong and Aldrin spent approximately two hours on the lunar surface before joining Michael Collins in the Apollo 11 command module. Fellow astronauts Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke and Dave Scott also feature in this revealing biopic. 1969, On July 20, after landing near Mare Tranquillitatis, Neil becomes the first man to walk on the Moon. Featuring interviews with Armstrong's first wife Janet, their two sons, Rick and Mark, Neil's brother and sister Dean and June, his best friend Kotcho Solacoff and second wife Carol. The film focuses goes beyond his days as an astronaut and shows that his life after the flight of Apollo 11 was, in many ways equally challenging, as Armstrong came to terms with life outside of NASA and the relentless demands of fame until his death in August 2012.įrom the producers of 'In the Shadow of the Moon'.
Seen through the eyes of those who were with him, discover the man behind the myth, a man who was very much a product of his time. From his childhood during America's Great Depression to the heady days of the space programme, his historic first step on the Moon and his famously private later life. Trailblazers: Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon Woolf, Alex on. Within a little over six-and-a-half hours, Apollo 11 landed on the moon with Armstrong as the first footwalker.
Aldrin, became the first men to set foot on the. Michael Armstrong Was The First Man To Be Toll Moon The first humans ever landed on the moon in 1969 when Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin Buzz Aldrin (1930-) successfully landed on the moon together.
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Neil Armstrong's family and friends, many of whom have never spoken publicly before, tell the story of the first man to set foot on the moon.ĭrawing heavily on unbroadcast archive footage and the unique perspectives of the contributors, this is an exclusive account of Neil Armstrong's extraordinary life story. An old dream came true on 21 July 1969, when the two American astronauts, Neil A. Biography Documentary hosted by Samuel West,