Post on 27-Sep-2020
Intrepid Explorers
Today we will be...Finding out about Neil Armstrong’s moon landing.
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•This is Neil Armstrong
•He was born in 1930
•He was born in America
•He first trained to be a pilot
•He then became an astronaut
•He is famous for being the first man to walk on the moon
•He died in 2012 at the age of 82
This picture shows Armstrong with the
crew of his first mission into space. The mission was called Gemini 8.
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Neil Armstrong became an astronaut in 1962. By this time, quite a few people had travelled into space but no one had landed on the moon.
Russia and the USA were racing against each other to see who could get a man on the moon first.
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After a lot of work by a lot of different people, NASA was ready to send American astronauts on a mission to the moon. This mission was called
Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong was the mission’s commander. He was joined by Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.
Neil ArmstrongBuzz Aldrin
Michael Collins
How do you think the astronauts would have been feeling as they set
off on their mission?
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On 16th July 1969, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins blasted off in their
rocket and headed for the moon.
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This is the spacesuit Neil Armstrong was wearing on his mission to the moon. What can you see?
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On 20th July, the astronauts reached the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin got in a smaller spacecraft known as ‘The Eagle’. Michael
Collins stayed behind to take care of the bigger spacecraft.
‘The Eagle’
The astronauts were supposed to sleep for a few hours before they
stepped on the moon but they were so excited that they asked to leave
the ship early!
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Neil Armstrong carefully got out of the Eagle and put one foot on the surface of the moon. As he stepped out, he said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap
for mankind.” This is now one of the most famous sentences in
history.
How do you think Armstrong might have felt at this moment?
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Meanwhile, the rest of the world was watching the moon landing on their televisions. No one had
ever seen anything like this before.
How do you think this family might have been feeling as they watched a man walk on the moon
for the very first time?
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When Christopher Columbus discovered America, he brought back lots of things that people in Europe had never seen
before, like pineapples, potatoes and turkeys.
Do you think Armstrong could have
brought back anything useful from the moon?
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Armstrong and Aldrin brought back knowledge about the moon.
They collected rocks to take
back to earth for scientific
experiments.
They examined and photographed the
surface of the moon.
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The main goal of the mission
had been to find out if man could land and walk on
the moon and make it home again safely.
The rocks and soil samples they
took back to Earth showed no
evidence that there was
anything living on the moon.
What did Armstrong and his crew discover?
Do you think they achieved their goal?
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Even though they didn’t bring back new objects from the moon, a lot of the objects we have today we only have because of the technology
used for exploring space.
house insulation batteries baby food trainer soles smoke alarms
Did you know that all of these items were first invented so that astronauts could go
into space?
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Plenary:
Have a look at the pictures of space on the next slides. How would you describe these pictures? How do
they make you feel?
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A picture of Earth taken from the moon