mr. armstrong on the moon. the only pictures he took of him with these big panoramas where armstrong is this tiny figure. .. >> so that night after finishing all of their chores they said later the worst chore was having to plant the flag because they didn't really know what the lunar surface was going to be like, and there were a number of scientists, in fact, who thought it was going to be this giant pile of dust that would swallow anything that landed on it. but, in fact, they discovered there was a very little tiny thin piece of dust and underneath it was this hard granite. d they pounded and pounded away on this flag pole, and they could only get it 3 or 4 inches in, and they were convinced that with millions watching around the world on tv it would fall over, and ty would be humiliated, and that would be the worst possible thing that could happen on this mission. even though they'd been awake working for 24 hours, they got almost no sleep before they had to take off again. it was too cold, and it was too

mr. armstrong could be rendered unconscious. they had to abort the missio one of the thrusters had gotten stuck and was firing over and over again causing them to shift out of control. the third time mr. armstrong was almost killed, he was training for apollo 11 in something called the llrv. this was a giant iron bedstead. you sat on top of it and had a rocket motor underneath and you would practice landing on the moon. in this case, mr. armstrong, his 20 first attempt at flying this, wind sar caught it at 100 feet of altitude, it started crashing towards the ground and he ejected out of it and the thing exploded in a fireball, he got out with 2 dhirds of the second to spare. he took off his uniform and went back to his offi and a number of astronauts heard that someone had almost died practicing this but couldn't figure out who it was because neil armstrong was just sitting in his ofce. a coupleays later they asked him what was it like when you almost died that time? id, you know, it is always a sad day when you lose machine. t