Study Guide & Preview Questions:
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Neil Armstrong has been described as the ultimate ____.
Options: celebrity, professional, pilot
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Neil Armstrong learned to fly after he graduated from high school.
Options: Correct, Incorrect
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Armstrong served as a pilot in the US ____, flying missions in the Korean War.
Options: Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines
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Neil Armstrong was accepted into NASA's Apollo program in 1969, the same year as the moon landing.
Options: Correct, Incorrect
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To get away from public attention, Armstrong became a teacher and worked for an ____ firm.
Options: avionics', engineering, accounting
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Armstrong's primary ambition was always to be the first man on the moon.
Options: Correct, Incorrect
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Before joining NASA, Armstrong worked at a laboratory where he flew experimental aircraft to an altitude of over ____ kilometers.
Options: 20, 40, 60, 100
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After becoming a worldwide celebrity, Armstrong stopped flying entirely.
Options: Correct, Incorrect
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In the forty years following his historic mission, Neil Armstrong only gave ____ interviews.
Options: two, ten, seventy-eight
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Armstrong felt his role in the Apollo space program was more special than the others who worked on it.
Options: Correct, Incorrect