Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Hello there. My name is Neil Armstrong, and ever since I was a little boy, my eyes were always turned toward the sky. I didn't just look at it; I dreamed of being up in it. While other kids played with cars, I was carefully gluing together model airplanes, imagining each one soaring through the clouds. My dream felt so real that I worked hard to make it happen. I learned to fly a real airplane and got my pilot's license when I was just sixteen years old, even before I had a license to drive a car. That love of flying never left me. It took me to new heights, first as a test pilot, where I flew some of the fastest and most experimental jets ever made. But I always wanted to go higher. That's what led me to a special place called NASA. I became an astronaut, one of a group of people training for the most amazing adventure you could imagine: a journey into space. We all shared the same dream, a dream of pushing past the blue sky and reaching for the stars, maybe even reaching for our closest neighbor in space, the Moon.