Topic > The World Beyond - 706

It was 10.56pm on July 20, 1969 and the lunar module was opening slightly to the sound of space and oxygen shattering, colliding with each other, "zzwwwwsshhhh ." (Neil Armstrong Biography ) The glassy, ​​bleak lunar surface was ready to land, ready to be “historicized.” Buzz chattered non-stop and babbled with his mouth showing excitement as if he were a child seeing a large lollipop. As we were inches away from taking the biggest step in history, my eyes were as big as the sun looking out the window of our tiny, cramped space shuttle, Apollo 11. Just as we were saturated in the dusty moon's atmosphere, I stared the stars twinkling in the black depths of time and energy, the only thing that made it pretty were those twinkling sparks of dust. In the act of walking towards the surface of the moon, when my substantial boots holding my space once the suit would step on that dusty, cloudy, soft outer part of the moon, I knew what I would say: "This is a little one step for man, one giant step for humanity." (Neil Armstrong Biography). I had to force my feet into the face of the moon, so I could get my mitts on something so never before real. It was like being in the air for who knows how long, even though we couldn't play for long, right? “Armstrong, start yelling at empty buckets,” Michael Collions said, at least that's what I thought he said. So as I went back to Apollo 11 to get what was asked of me, I stopped and felt amazed and proud and honored, and I stood there and looked again at those glittering, dusty dots in the deep hole of time and history. 'energy. . It was like this was all surreal, but then I came back to reality and ran to get the huge bu...... middle of paper ...... lessons at age 15 and took my pilot's license on my sixteenth birthday. (Neil Armstrong Biography). As I look back at my past and see what I have accomplished and how many I will achieve in the future, we had to rush into the big inflated space shuttle. Suddenly we put our heavy spacesuits in the basket and sat down in our equipped space. I started pressing the huge green button that said go. Buzz flipped more switches. It all happened at once and we made it work. We became the first people to successfully land on the moon. When the gas rockets blazed from the moon, we knew we were returning safely home. We were a successful crew, myself, Neil Alden Armstrong, as commander, Colonel Edwin Eugene, "Buzz Aldrin" and Colonel Michael Collions. (Apollo 11: The first men on the Moon). Together we made history and brought science into a new era of life.