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Hey there. I’m Neil Armstrong.

These are my buddies Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

We’re descending at 17,500 miles per hour, temperatures of 3000 degrees surround this tiny metal capsule and to my rear is the terrifying vacuum of space.

So, why are we up here?

Well, there are two real powerful countries on Earth doing all they can to look better than the other.

The Soviet Union put the first person into space, so President Kennedy of the United States of America set a challenge.

We will go to the Moon!

Not because it is easy but because it is hard.

A trip to the Moon means flying, and boy was I good at flying.

So the US government asked if I wanted to become an astronaut.

After seven years the guys on NASA’s Apollo mission were ready to shoot me to the Moon.

The force of take off was intense.

But when we made it out into space we became weightless.

Now there was nothing holding us back.

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