The Moral Vision
Moon Mission
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MOON MISSION
American Astronaut, Neil Armstrong, stepped on to
the moon for the first time in July 1969. The moment
he set his foot on the moon, the control mission in
American received these words uttered by him:
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant
leap for mankind.”
Armstrong and his two colleagues were selected
from amongst the top 30 astronauts of the U.S.A. He
possessed to a very high degree all those qualities
which were necessary for this difficult, historic
mission—extraordinary skill in flying, intelligence,
strength, ability to absorb information, mental and
emotional balance and the courage to accept
challenges unhesitatingly. Once selected, he had to
undergo rigorous training, for instance, having to
remain in deep water for long periods so that he
would become used to weightlessness. So that he
could deal with every possible emergency, he did
elaborate courses in astronomy, space flight, rocket
flight, the physics of the moon, etc.— all with the
help of computerized space data.
